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Phthitogomphus

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Phthitogomphus
Temporal range: Early Jurassic,
~184.2–182.9 Ma
Specimen from the Schistes bitumineux, Luxembourg
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Family: Liassogomphidae
Genus: Phthitogomphus
Cowley, 1942
Species:
P. angulatus
Binomial name
Phthitogomphus angulatus
Cowley, 1942
Synonyms
  • Paragomphus Handlirsch, 1939

Phthitogomphus is an extinct genus of odonate[1] from the Early Jurassic and it is known from the Sachrang Formation of Germany[2] and Switzerland,[3] and the Schistes bitumineux of Luxembourg.[4]

The type species is Phthitogomphus angulatus[2][5] and it was initially known as Paragomphus angulatus.[6]

References

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  1. ^ G. Bechly. (2018). First record and a new species of the fossil dragonfly genus Proinogomphus (Odonata: Liassogomphidae) from the Early Jurassic of Bascharage in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Zootaxa 4450:108-114
  2. ^ a b J. Cowley. (1942). Descriptions of some genera of fossil Odonata. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series B, Taxonomy 11:63-78
  3. ^ W. Etter and O. Kuhn. (2000). An articulated dragonfly (Insecta, Odonata) from the Upper Liassic Posidonia Shale of Northern Switzerland. Palaeontology 43:967-977
  4. ^ Henrotay, M.; Marques, D.; Paicheler, J. C.; Gall, J. C.; Nel, A. (1998). "Le Toarcien inférieur des régions de Bascharage et de Bettembourg (grand-duché du Luxembourg) : évidences paléontologiques et sédimentologiques d'environnements restreints proches de l'émersion" (PDF). Geodiversitas. 20 (2): 263–284.
  5. ^ A. Nel, X. Martínez-Delclòs, and J. C. Paicheler, M. Henrotay. (1993). Les "Anisozygoptera" fossiles Phylogenie et classification (Odonata). Martinia 3:1-311
  6. ^ A. Handlirsch. (1939). Neue Untersuchungen über die fossilen Insekten mit Ergänzungen und Nachträgen sowie Ausblicken auf phylogenetische, palaeogeographische und allgemein biologische Probleme. II Teil. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 49:1-240