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Issue: Vol. 5415 No. 3: 22 Feb. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-02-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5415.3.9
Page range: 493-498
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Stolleagrion foghnielseni (Odonata, Cephalozygoptera, Dysagrionidae) gen. et sp. nov.: a new odonatan from the PETM recovery phase of the earliest Ypresian Fur Formation, Denmark

Department of Research and Collections; Natural History Museum Aarhus; Wilhelm Meyers Allé 10; Aarhus; DK-8000 Aarhus C; Denmark
Beaty Biodiversity Museum; University of British Columbia; Vancouver; British Columbia; Canada; Museum of Comparative Zoology; 26 Oxford Street; Cambridge; Massachusetts; 02138; United States of America
Museum Mors; Skarrehagevej 8; DK-7950 Nykøbing Mors; Denmark; Natural History Museum of Denmark; Øster Voldgade 5-7; DK-1350 Copenhagen K; Denmark
Fur Museum; Nederby 28; DK-7884 Fur; Denmark
Department of Research and Collections; Natural History Museum Aarhus; Wilhelm Meyers Allé 10; Aarhus; DK-8000 Aarhus C; Denmark
Division of Invertebrate Zoology; American Museum of Natural History; NY; NY; 10024USA
Odonata Cephalozygoptera Dysagrionidae Fur Formation PETM recovery phase Ax0

Abstract

We describe the new genus and species Stolleagrion foghnielseni n. gen. et sp. from the Fur Formation in northwestern Denmark based on a single fossil wing. This is the first odonatan described from the earliest part of the PETM recovery phase of the early Eocene. A combination of nine wing character states are considered to be diagnostic of the Dysagrionidae Cockrell only together with the cephalozygopteran head; however, the combination of these nine plus the presence of Ax0 is also diagnostic without the head. By this, we assign Stolleagrion foghnielseni to the Dysagrionidae and reassess the position of other odonates previously treated as cf. Dysagrionidae.

 

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