Insecta - Odonata - Aeschnidiidae
Alternative combinations: Aeschna flindersiensis, Aeschnidium flindersiense
Full reference: H. Woodward. 1884. On the wing of a neuropterous insect from the Cretaceous limestone of Flinders River, north Queensland, Australia. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade III 1:337-339
Belongs to Aeschnidiopsis according to A. Nel and X. Martínez-Delclòs 1993
See also Handlirsch 1907, Kirby 1890, Riek 1954, Tillyard 1918 and Woodward 1884
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Its type locality is Flinders River, which is in an Aptian carbonate lime mudstone in the Walumbilla Formation of Australia
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution: found only at Flinders River
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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