Libanoaeshna mikhaeli Azar et al. 2024 (true dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Libanoaeshnidae

Full reference: D. Azar, S. Maksoud, P. Abi-Saad and A. Nel. 2024. A new, to date endemic, family of dragonfly in the mid-Cretaceous fossil fish Konservat-Lagerstätte of Haqel, Lebanon (Odonata: Anisoptera). Zootaxa 5497:142-150

Belongs to Libanoaeshna according to D. Azar et al. 2024

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: LU I-26247/1, a forewing. Its type locality is Haqel (Lebanese University MNH collection), which is in a Cenomanian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal carbonate in Lebanon.

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Haqel (Lebanese University MNH collection)

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