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Issue: Vol. 5497 No. 1: 22 Aug. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-08-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.1.9
Page range: 142-150
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A new, to date endemic, family of dragonfly in the mid-Cretaceous fossil fish Konservat-Lagerstätte of Haqel, Lebanon (Odonata: Anisoptera)

State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Nanjing; Jiangsu; 210008; China; Department of Natural Sciences; Faculty of Sciences II; Lebanese University; P.O. Box: 26110217; Fanar; Matn; Lebanon
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Nanjing; Jiangsu; 210008; China; Department of Natural Sciences; Faculty of Sciences II; Lebanese University; P.O. Box: 26110217; Fanar; Matn; Lebanon
Memory of Time; Byblos old sook; Byblos; Lebanon
Institut de Systématique; Evolution; Biodiversité; ISYEB—UMR 7205—CNRS; MNHN; UPMC; EPHE; Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle; Sorbonne Universités; 57 Rue Cuvier; CP 50; Entomologie; F-75005; Paris; France
Odonata Insecta Aeshnoptera gen. et sp. nov. fam. nov. Mesozoic diversification

Abstract

The new family Libanoaeshnidae fam. nov., with the new genus and species Libanoaeshna mikhaeli gen. et sp. nov., are characterised, described and illustrated from Haqel, the famous upper Cenomanian fossil fish outcrop of Lebanon. This is the first time that a fossil insect is reported from this site. Libanoaeshnidae fam. nov., together with three other Cretaceous families, can be included in the stem group of the modern Aeshnodea Bechly, 1996, confirming the important diversification of this clade during this period, even if the oldest known representatives of the Aeshnidae sensu stricto are still Eocene.

 

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