Solnhofenia Bechly 2000 (small darner)

Insecta - Odonata - Aeschnidiidae

Full reference: G. Bechly. 2000. Two new fossil dragonfly species (Insecta: Odonata: Pananisoptera: Aeschnidiidae and Atassiidae) from the Solnhofen lithographic limestones (Upper Jurassic, Germany). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 288:1-9

Parent taxon: Aeschnidiidae according to G. Fleck and A. Nel 2003

See also Bechly 2000

Sister taxa: Aegyptidium, Aeschnidiella, Aeschnidiopsis, Aeschnidium, Angloaeschnidium, Bergeriaeschnidia, Brunetaeschnidium, Brunneaeschnidia, Cooperaeschnidium, Coramaeschnidium, Cratoaeschnidium, Dakotaeschnidium, Delclosaeschidium, Diastatopaeschnidium, Dracontaeschnidium, Gansuaeschnidia, Gigantoaeschnidium, Hebeiaeschnidia, Iberoaeschnidium, Jarzembowskiaeschnidium, Kesseleraeschnidium, Kimmeridgebrachypteraeschnidium, Leptaeschnidium, Libellula abscissa, Linaeschnidium, Lithoaeschnidium, Lleidoaeschnidium, Malmaeschnidium, Misofaeschnidium, Nannoaeschnidium, Neimengogomphus, Neimengogomphus dongwugaiensis, Pseudosamarura, Pseudosamarura largina, Rossaeschnidium, Santanoptera, Sinaeschnidia, Sinostenophlebia, Stylaeschnidium, Tauropteryx, Urogomphus, Wightonia, Yixiangomphus, Yixiangomphus labius, Sona

Subtaxa: Solnhofenia stoebeneri

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Type: Solnhofenia stoebeneri

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Blumenberg quarry, Eichstätt, Solnhofen (SMNS collection) (Jurassic of Germany)

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