Trameobasileus Zeuner 1938 (common skimmer)

Insecta - Odonata - Libellulidae

Full reference: F. E. Zeuner. 1938. Die Insektenfauna des Mainzer Hydrobienkalks. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 20:104-159

Parent taxon: Trameini according to A. Nel and J. C. Paicheler 1993

See also Carpenter 1992 and Zeuner 1938

Sister taxa: Palaeotramea, Paleotauriphila, Pisaurum, Tramea

Subtaxa: Trameobasileus moguntiacus

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Type: Trameobasileus moguntiacus

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Dyckeroff's quarry, Biebrich near Mainz-Castel (Miocene of Germany)

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