Cretacoenagrion alleni Jarzembowski 1990 (damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Cretacoenagrionidae

Full reference: E. A. Jarzembowski. 1990. Early Cretaceous zygopteroids of southern England, with the description of Cretacoenagrion alleni gen. nov., spec. nov. (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae; "Anisozygoptera": Tarsophlebiidae, Euthemistidae). Odontologica 19(1):27-37

Belongs to Cretacoenagrion according to E. A. Jarzembowski et al. 1998

See also Jarzembowski 1990

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BMB 014884-5, a wing. 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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