Elattogomphus Bode 1953 (dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Liassogomphidae

Full reference: A. Bode. 1953. Die Insektenfauna des Ostniedersachsischen Oberen Lias. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 103:1-375

Parent taxon: Liassogomphidae according to G. Bechly 2018

See also Bode 1953, Carpenter 1992 and Nel et al. 1993

Sister taxa: Chrysogomphus, Heterothemis, Necygomphus, Phthitogomphus, Proinogomphus

Subtaxa: Elattogomphus latus

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Type: Elattogomphus latus

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Hondelage, Braunschweig (Jurassic of Germany)

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