†Leptaeschnidium latum Pritykina 1977 (small darner)
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Insecta - Odonata - Aeschnidiidae
Full reference: L. N. Pritykina. 1977. New dragonflies from Lower Cretaceous deposits of Transbaikalia and Mongolia. Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 4:81-96
Belongs to Leptaeschnidium according to G. Fleck and A. Nel 2003
See also Nel and Martínez-Delclòs 1993 and Pritykina 1977
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: PIN 1989/955, a hindwing. Its type locality is Baissa (PIN collection 1989), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large siltstone/marl in the Zaza Formation of the Russian Federation.
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution: found only at Baissa (PIN collection 1989)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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