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Issue: Vol. 5396 No. 1: 29 Dec. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-12-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5396.1.7
Page range: 26-34
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New stem-anisopteran dragonflies in the Jurassic of China (Odonata: Epiproctophora)

State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Nanjing 210008; China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Nanjing 210008; China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Nanjing 210008; China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Nanjing 210008; China
Institut de Systématique; Evolution; Biodiversité (ISYEB); Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle; CNRS; Sorbonne Université; EPHE; Université des Antilles; CP 50; 57 rue Cuvier; 75005 Paris; France
Odonata Insecta Odonatoptera Asiopteridae Juragomphidae Liassogomphidae Jurassic faunas

Abstract

The odonatan asiopterid Turanopteron sinensis sp. nov. and the juragomphid Oxfordgomphus trescellulae gen. et sp. nov. are described on the basis of two new fossil wings from the Middle-Upper Jurassic of Henan Province in China. These taxa belong to ‘ancient’, Toarcian epiproctophoran stem groups of Anisoptera Selys, 1854. They show important affinities with taxa from the Karatau entomofauna in Kazakhstan. These groups progressively decrease and were replaced by more ‘modern’ clades of Anisoptera during the Late Jurassic.

 

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