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Allopetaliini

Insecta - Odonata - Aeshnidae

Taxonomy
Allopetaliidae was named by Cockerell (1913). It is extant.

It was reranked as the tribe Allopetaliini by Bechly and Rasmussen (2019).

It was assigned to Aeshnodea by Bechly et al. (2001); and to Aeshninae by Bechly and Rasmussen (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1913Allopetaliidae Cockerell
2001Allopetaliidae Bechly et al. p. 199
2019Allopetaliini Bechly and Rasmussen p. 124

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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
—Euodonatoptera
—OdonatocladaBechly 1999
—Nodialata
—Discoidalia
—Stigmoptera
RankNameAuthor
—Lobodonata
—Panodonata
orderOdonata
—Epiproctophora
—EuepiproctophoraBechly 1998
—Anisopteromorpha
—Trigonoptera
—Pananisoptera
—NeoanisopteraBechly 1998
suborderAnisopteraSelys-Longchamps and Hagen 1854
—Euanisoptera
—Aeshnoptera
—Aeshnomorpha
—Panaeshnida
—Aeshnida
—Paneuaeshnida
—Euaeshnida
—Neoaeshnida
—Aeshnodea
—Euaeshnodea
superfamilyAeshnoideaLeach 1815
familyAeshnidaeLeach 1815
subfamilyAeshninae
tribeAllopetaliini(Cockerell 1913)
tribeAllopetaliini(Cockerell 1913)

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.

Tr. Allopetaliini Cockerell 1913
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G. †Anglogomphaeschna Nel and Fleck 2014
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†Anglogomphaeschna eocenica Nel and Fleck 2014
G. †Baissaeshna Pritykina 1977
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†Baissaeshna prisca Pritykina 1977
†Baissaeshna zherikhini Bechly et al. 2001
G. Boyeria McLachlan 1896
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†Boyeria europaea Nel et al. 1996
G. †Parabaissaeshna Bechly and Rasmussen 2019
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†Parabaissaeshna ejerslevense Bechly and Rasmussen 2019
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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Aptian to the top of the Messinian or 125.00000 to 5.33300 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 113.0 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aptian125.0 - 113.0Russian Federation (Buryatia) Baissaeshna prisca (105536) Baissaeshna zherikhini (105969)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Denmark Parabaissaeshna ejerslevense (199521)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9United Kingdom (England) Anglogomphaeschna eocenica (21976 123959 123960 207258)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333France (Cantal) Allopetalia europaea (122195)