Hypsothemis jurassica Pritykina 1968 (dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Campterophlebiidae

Full reference: L. N. Pritykina. 1968. Strekozy Karatau (Odonata). Yurskoy Nasekomiye Karatau 26-54

Belongs to Hypsothemis according to L. N. Pritykina 1968

Sister taxa: Hypsothemis fraseri, Hypsothemis sinensis

Type specimen: PIN 2239/13, an exoskeleton (Male with three wings and Thorax). Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2239), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2239)

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