Insecta - Odonata - Asiopteridae

Alternative combination: Mesoepiophlebia bexleyi

Full reference: A. Nel and E. A. Jarzembowski. 1996. Description and revison of some dragonflies (‘Anisozygoptera’) from the Lower Cretaceous of England (Odonata : Stenophlebiidae , Campterophlebiidae? , Epiophlebiidae , Euthemistidae). Cretaceous Research 17:87-96

Belongs to Turanopteron according to G. Bechly 1997

See also Nel and Jarzembowski 1996

Sister taxa: Turanopteron major, Turanopteron medium, Turanopteron minor, Turanopteron pommerana, Turanopteron sinensis

Type specimen: BMB 018377, a wing (missing apex). Its type locality is Clockhouse Brickworks (BMB collection), which is in a Hauterivian lagoonal sandstone in the Weald Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Clockhouse Brickworks (BMB collection)

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