Insecta - Odonata - Aeschnidiidae
Full reference: A. Nel. 2021. Maastrichtian representatives of the dragonfly family Aeschnidiidae question the entomofaunal turnover of the early Late Cretaceous. Palaeoentomology 4:209-212
Parent taxon: Aeschnidiidae according to A. Nel 2021
Sister taxa: Aegyptidium, Aeschnidiella, Aeschnidiopsis, Aeschnidium, Angloaeschnidium, Bergeriaeschnidia, Brunetaeschnidium, Brunneaeschnidia, Cooperaeschnidium, Coramaeschnidium, Cratoaeschnidium, Delclosaeschidium, Diastatopaeschnidium, Dracontaeschnidium, Gansuaeschnidia, Gigantoaeschnidium, Hebeiaeschnidia, Iberoaeschnidium, Jarzembowskiaeschnidium, Kesseleraeschnidium, Kimmeridgebrachypteraeschnidium, Leptaeschnidium, Libellula abscissa, Linaeschnidium, Lithoaeschnidium, Lleidoaeschnidium, Malmaeschnidium, Misofaeschnidium, Nannoaeschnidium, Neimengogomphus, Neimengogomphus dongwugaiensis, Pseudosamarura, Pseudosamarura largina, Rossaeschnidium, Santanoptera, Sinaeschnidia, Sinostenophlebia, Solnhofenia, Stylaeschnidium, Tauropteryx, Urogomphus, Wightonia, Yixiangomphus, Yixiangomphus labius, Sona
Subtaxa: Dakotaeschnidium spedeni
Type: Dakotaeschnidium spedeni
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution: found only at 6 miles W of Whitehorse (Cretaceous of South Dakota)
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