Hemeroscopus baissicus Pritykina 1977 (true dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Hemeroscopidae

Full reference: L. N. Pritykina. 1977. New dragonflies from Lower Cretaceous deposits of Transbaikalia and Mongolia. Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 4:81-96

Belongs to Hemeroscopus according to K. S. Nam and J. H. Kim 2016

See also Bechly et al. 1998, Pritykina 1977, Ren 1995, Ueda et al. 2005 and Zheng et al. 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PIN 3064/141, a hindwing. Its type locality is Baissa (PIN collection 3064), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large marl in the Zaza Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of China (2 collections), the Russian Federation (2), South Korea (2)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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