Cordulagomphus

Cordulagomphus Temporal range: Barremian-Aptian, ~125.77–113  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
A fossil of Cordulagomphus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Infraorder:	Anisoptera
Family:	† Proterogomphidae
Genus:	† Cordulagomphus Carle & Wighton, 1990
Type species
†Cordulagomphus tuberculatus Carle & Wighton, 1990
Other species
†C. europaeus Vernoux et al., 2010 †C. fenestratus Carle & Wighton, 1990 †C. hanneloreae Bechly, 2007 †C. michaeli Bechly, 2007 †C. primaerensis Petrulevicius & Martins-Neto, 2007 †C. senckenbergi Bechly, 1998 †C. winkelhoferi Bechly, 2007 †C. xavieri Nel & Escuillé, 1994

Cordulagomphus is an extinct genus of dragonflies from the Early Cretaceous. It contains nine species; most are from the Crato Formation of Brazil, though C. europaeus is from the Weald Clay of England. ^[1] C. xavieri, C. senckenbergi, C. primaerensis, and C. michaeli are classified in subgenus Procordulagomphus. ^{[2] [3]} Caririlabia santanensis was originally described as a species of Cordulagomphus. ^[4]

References

1. Vernoux, Julien; Huang, Di-ying; Jarzembowski, Edmund A.; Nel, André (February 2010). "The Proterogomphidae: a worldwide Mesozoic family of gomphid dragonflies (Odonata: Anisoptera: Gomphides)" . Cretaceous Research. 31 (1): 94–100. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2009.09.010.
2. Bechly, G. (2007). "Odonata: damselflies and dragonflies, pp. 184–222 in The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil: Window into an Ancient World. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   113946776X.
3. Petrulevičius, J.F.; et al. (2012). "Full description of Cordulagomphus primaerensis from Santana Formation (Lower Cretaceous of Brazil) (Odonata: Aeshnoptera: Proterogomphidae)". Zootaxa. 3503: 55–60. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3503.1.4. hdl: 11336/198322 .
4. Carle, Frank Louis; Wighton, Dennis C. (1990). "Insects from the Santana Formation, Lower Cretaceous, of Brazil. Chapter 3: Odonata". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (195): 51–68.

External links

• Media related to Cordulagomphus at Wikimedia Commons
• Cordulagomphus in the Paleobiology Database
• "Cordulagomphus". The Encyclopedia of Life .