†family Selenothemistidae Handlirsch 1939 (dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Selenothemistidae

Alternative spelling: Selenothemidae

Synonym: Turanothemistidae Pritykina 1968

Full reference: A. Handlirsch. 1939. Neue Untersuchungen über die fossilen Insekten mit Ergänzungen und Nachträgen sowie Ausblicken auf phylogenetische, palaeogeographische und allgemein biologische Probleme. II Teil. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 49:1-240

Parent taxon: Isophlebioidea according to A. Nel et al. 1993

See also Bode 1953, Carpenter 1992, Cowley 1942, Handlirsch 1939 and Huang et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Campterophlebiidae, Isophlebiidae, Kazachophlebia

Subtaxa: Caraphlebia Dialothemis Jurathemis Paraliassophlebia Selenothemis Sinothemis Turanothemis Yananthemis

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Type: Selenothemis

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Antarctica (1 collection), China (4), Germany (2), Kazakhstan (1)

Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence

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