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Araripegomphus

Insecta - Odonata - Araripegomphidae

Taxonomy

Araripegomphus was named by Nel and Paicheler (1994). Its type is Araripegomphus cretacicus. It is the type genus of Araripegomphidae.

It was assigned to Gomphidae by Nel and Paicheler (1994); and to Araripegomphidae by Bechly (1998), Zheng et al. (2018), Nel and Ribeiro (2022).

Species

A. andreneli, A. cretacicus (type species), A. hanseggeri, A. ismari, A. shai

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1994	Araripegomphus Nel and Paicheler p. 71
1998	Araripegomphus Bechly p. 5
2018	Araripegomphus Zheng et al. p. 169
2022	Araripegomphus Nel and Ribeiro p. 1779

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
infraclass	Hydropalaeoptera	Rohdendorf 1969
—	Euhydropalaeoptera
—	Odonatoptera	Martynov 1932
—	Palaeodonatoptera

Rank	Name	Author
—	Plesiodonatoptera
—	Apodonatoptera
—	Paneodonatoptera
—	Neodonatoptera
—	Euodonatoptera
—	Odonatoclada	Bechly 1999
—	Nodialata
—	Discoidalia
—	Stigmoptera
—	Lobodonata
—	Panodonata
order	Odonata
—	Epiproctophora
—	Euepiproctophora	Bechly 1998
—	Anisopteromorpha
—	Trigonoptera
—	Pananisoptera
—	Neoanisoptera	Bechly 1998
suborder	Anisoptera	Selys-Longchamps and Hagen 1854
—	Euanisoptera
—	Exophytica
—	Gomphides
family	Araripegomphidae	Bechly 1996
genus	Araripegomphus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Araripegomphus Nel and Paicheler 1994

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†Araripegomphus andreneli Bechly 1998

†Araripegomphus cretacicus Nel and Paicheler 1994

†Araripegomphus hanseggeri Bechly 2000

†Araripegomphus ismari Nel and Ribeiro 2022

†Araripegomphus shai Zheng et al. 2018

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitino

Form:

roller-shapedo

Environment:

freshwater, terrestrialo

Locomotion:

fast-movingo

Life habit:

volanto

Diet:

carnivoreo

Diet 2:

insectivoreo

Vision:

well-developedo

Dispersal:

watero

Created:

2011-03-07 03:41:10

Modified:

2011-03-06 16:41:10

Source: o = order

Reference: Ren and Guo 1996

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Aptian to the top of the Early/Lower Cenomanian or 119.57000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections (9 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Aptian	119.57 - 113.2	Brazil (Ceará)	A. andreneli (122918 122919 122922 122925 122926) A. andreneli, A. hanseggeri (122557) A. cretacicus (125509) A. ismari (217013)
Early/Lower Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Myanmar	A. shai (161726)