†family Primumaeshnidae Pouillon and Nel 2020 (true dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Primumaeshnidae

Full reference: J. M. Pouillon and A. Nel. 2020. The oldest representative of the modern clade Aeshnodea from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation, Araripe Basin, NE Brazil (Odonata: Anisoptera). Cretaceous Research 116(104580)

Parent taxon: Aeshnodea according to J. M. Pouillon and A. Nel 2020

Sister taxon: Euaeshnodea

Subtaxa: Primumaeshna

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Type: Primumaeshna

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Crato (MHNE collection) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

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