Clade Gomphida Bechly 1996 (true dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata

Full reference: G. Bechly. 1996. Morphologische Untersuchungen am Flügelgeäder der rezenten Libellen und deren Stammgruppenvertreter (Insecta; Pterygota; Odonata) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der phylogenetischen Systematik und des Grundplanes der Odonata. Petalura, Special-Volume 2:1-402

Parent taxon: Brevicubitalia according to G. Bechly 2007

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Gomphidae

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Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection)

• Pliocene of Germany (1), United States (1: California)

• Miocene of Australia (1), Austria (2), China (2), France (2), Germany (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Turkey (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Germany (1)

• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (3)

• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Poland (1)

• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), China (4), Myanmar (1), Spain (3)

• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 31 collections including 34 occurrences

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