†Somatochlora oregonica Cockerell 1927 (green-eyed skimmer)
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Insecta - Odonata - Corduliidae
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1927. Tertiary Fossil Insects from Eastern Oregon. Additions to the Paleontology of the Pacific Coast and Great Basin Regions of North America 346:64-65
Belongs to Somatochlora according to T. D. A. Cockerell 1927
Sister taxon: Somatochlora brisaci
Type specimen: Its type locality is UCMP P-3748, 11 miles east of Post, which is in an Oligocene lacustrine shale in the John Day Formation of Oregon
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution: found only at UCMP P-3748, 11 miles east of Post
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