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Issue: Vol. 4032 No. 3: 16 Oct. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-10-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4032.3.4
Page range: 290–296
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 3

A new libelluloid family from the Eocene Green River Formation (Colorado, USA) (Odonata, Anisoptera)

Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Carthage, 7021, Zarzouna, Bizerte, Tunisia.
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB, UMR 7205 CNRS UPMC EPHE, CP50, 45 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB, UMR 7205 CNRS UPMC EPHE, CP50, 45 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France
Odonata Cavilabiata gen. et sp. n. Cenozoic

Abstract

The new family Urolibellulidae is proposed for the new genus and species Urolibellula eocenica, based on a fossil dragonfly from the Eocene Green River Formation (USA). This new taxon is considered as the sister group of the extant Libellulidae. As the oldest libellulid dragonfly is dated from the Turonian, the Urolibellulidae should also be at least Late Cretaceous.