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Librelula maradoniana

Insecta - Odonata - Argiolestidae

Discussion

Etymology. In honour to Diego Armando Maradona (El Diego) the best world football player ever. In 1986 FIFA World Cup, Maradona, the People football player, redefined the football in less than five minutes (https:// edition.cnn.com/2018/06/11/football/world-cup-argentinaengland- 1986-diego-maradona/index.html), first with the hand of God goal and then with the goal of the Century, related exquisitely by Victor Hugo Morales. In words of Emir Kusturica (https://www.youtube.com/watchvO8G9ytZgbM) that match was maybe the first and the last time that there was justice in the world. He inspired the people and many popular artistic expressions via his Maradonian way.

Taxonomy
Librelula maradoniana was named by Petrulevičius (2020). Its type specimen is MLP 29425, a wing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is El Fuerte, which is in a Paleocene lacustrine - small shale in the Maíz Gordo Formation of Argentina. It is the type species of Librelula.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2020Librelula maradoniana Petrulevičius p. 541 fig. 1,2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
infraclassHydropalaeopteraRohdendorf 1969
RankNameAuthor
—Euhydropalaeoptera
—OdonatopteraMartynov 1932
—Palaeodonatoptera
—Plesiodonatoptera
—Apodonatoptera
—Paneodonatoptera
—Neodonatoptera
—Euodonatoptera
—OdonatocladaBechly 1999
—Nodialata
—Discoidalia
—Stigmoptera
—Lobodonata
—Panodonata
orderOdonata
suborderZygopteraSelys-Longchamps 1854
—Euzygoptera
familyArgiolestidaeFraser 1957
subfamilyArgiolestinaeFraser 1960
genusLibrelula
speciesmaradoniana

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.

†Librelula maradoniana Petrulevičius 2020
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
J. F. Petrulevičius 2020Diagnosis. As for the genus (vide supra).
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: Late/Upper Paleocene or 59.24000 to 56.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Paleocene59.24 - 56.0Argentina (Jujuy) Librelula maradoniana (type locality: 106995)