Caraphlebia
| Caraphlebia Temporal range: Toarcian
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| Genus: | †Caraphlebia Carpenter, 1969
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| Species: | †C. antarctica
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| †Caraphlebia antarctica Carpenter, 1969
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Caraphlebia is an extinct genus of dragonflies, known from the Early Jurassic Mawson Formation of Antarctica. It is one of the only named fossil insects from Antarctica that have been formally described; others include two beetles, Grahamelytron crofti and Ademosynoides antarctica, both from a Jurassic deposit on Mount Flora Formation. Caraphlebia is related to the genus Liassophlebia, but the hind wing has several weak antipodals in addition to the two strong, primary ones.[1] In 2018, Caraphlebia was confirmed to be placed in the family Selenothemistidae.[2]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Carpenter, Frank M. (1969). "Fossil Insects From Antarctica". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 76 (4): 418–425. doi:10.1155/1969/17070. ISSN 0033-2615.
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- ^ Kelly, R. S.; Nel, A. (2018). "Revision of some damsel-dragonflies (Odonata, Liassophlebiidae and Anglophlebiidae new family) from the Triassic/Jurassic of England and Antarctica". Journal of Paleontology. 92 (6): 1035–1048. Bibcode:2018JPal...92.1035K. doi:10.1017/jpa.2018.32. hdl:1983/4fddbd9f-2ab2-40bf-b718-b8dd80ffb8b7.
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