Basic info Taxonomic history Classification Included Taxa
Morphology Ecology and taphonomy External Literature Search Age range and collections

Lestes ceresti

Insecta - Odonata - Lestidae

Taxonomy
Lestes ceresti was named by Nel and Papazian (1985). Its type specimen is MNHN-LP-R 07445, a wing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Céreste (MNHN coll), which is in a MP 23 lacustrine carbonate in the Campagne-Calavon Formation of France.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1985Lestes ceresti Nel and Papazian p. 275 figs. 1-5
1987Lestes ceresti Nel p. 114
1994Lestes ceresti Nel and Paicheler
2021Lestes ceresti Nel and Zheng p. 166 fig. 1

Is something missing? Join the Paleobiology Database and enter the data

RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
infraclassHydropalaeopteraRohdendorf 1969
—Euhydropalaeoptera
—OdonatopteraMartynov 1932
—Palaeodonatoptera
—Plesiodonatoptera
—Apodonatoptera
—Paneodonatoptera
—Neodonatoptera
RankNameAuthor
—Euodonatoptera
—OdonatocladaBechly 1999
—Nodialata
—Discoidalia
—Stigmoptera
—Lobodonata
—Panodonata
orderOdonata
suborderZygopteraSelys-Longchamps 1854
—Euzygoptera
—Lestomorpha
—Lestiformia
—Eulestiformia
—Lestida
—Lestodea
superfamilyLestoideaFraser 1957
familyLestidae
genusLestesLeach 1815
speciesceresti

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.

†Lestes ceresti Nel and Papazian 1985
show all | hide all
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 10:41:10
Source: o = order
Reference: Ren and Guo 1996

Age range: base of the MP 23 to the top of the Late/Upper Oligocene or 33.90000 to 23.03000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 2333.9 - 28.4France Lestes ceresti (type locality: 122984 123913 155667 157228)
Late/Upper Oligocene28.4 - 23.03France (Bouches-du-Rhone) Lestes ceresti (113989)