Austroprotolindenia jurassica Beattie and Nel 2012 (true dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Protolindeniidae

Full reference: R. G. Beattie and A. Nel. 2012. A new dragonfly, Austroprotolindenia jurassica (Odonata: Anisoptera), from the Upper Jurassic of Australia. Alcheringa 36:189-193

Belongs to Austroprotolindenia according to A. Nel et al. 2017

See also Beattie and Nel 2012

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AM F.136868, a wing (two wings partly overlapping). Its type locality is Talbragar Fossil Fish Bed (AM collection), which is in a Tithonian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in Australia.

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Talbragar Fossil Fish Bed (AM collection)

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.