Insecta - Odonata - Aeschnidiidae
Full reference: R. J. Tillyard. 1918. Mesozoic Insects of Queensland no. 2 The fossil dragonfly Aeschnidiopsis (Aeschna) flindersiensis Woodward, from the Rolling Downs (Cretaceous) Series. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 42:676-692
Parent taxon: Aeschnidiidae according to G. Fleck and A. Nel 2003
See also Carpenter 1992 and Nel and Martínez-Delclòs 1993
Sister taxa: Aegyptidium, Aeschnidiella, 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, Solnhofenia, Stylaeschnidium, Tauropteryx, Urogomphus, Wightonia, Yixiangomphus, Yixiangomphus labius, Sona
Subtaxa: Aeschnidiopsis flindersiensis
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution: found only at Flinders River (Cretaceous of Australia)
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