Where: Denmark (56.2° N, 9.4° E: paleocoordinates 56.2° N, 6.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)
• Lower Miocene or Upper Oligocene; flora termed Aquitanian by Mathiesen
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected in 1916
Primary reference: K. L. Henriksen. 1922. A new Tertiary dragon fly Oplonaeschna staurophlebioides n. sp. from Denmark. Meddelelser fra Dansk Geologisk Forening 6(9):3-5 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 164572: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.12.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Oplonaeschna staurophlebioides n. sp. Henriksen 1922 true dragonfly |