Valerea multicellulata Garrouste et al. 2016 (damselfly)

Insecta - Odonata

Full reference: R. Garrouste, S. Wedmann, J. M. Pouillon and A. Nel. 2016. The oldest 'amphipterygid' damselfly of tropical affinities in the Paleocene of Menat (Zygoptera: Eucaloptera). Historical Biology 29:818-821

Belongs to Valerea according to S. B. Archibald et al. 2021

See also Garrouste et al. 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MNHN.F.A57315, a wing. Its type locality is Menat (MNHN collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Menat (MNHN collection)

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