Oryctodiplax

Oryctodiplax Temporal range: Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Fossil larvae of Oryctodiplax gypsorum from Italy
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Odonata
Infraorder:	Anisoptera
Family:	Libellulidae
Genus:	† Oryctodiplax Cavallo & Galletti, 1987
Type species
Oryctodiplax gypsorum Cavallo & Galletti, 1987

Oryctodiplax is an extinct genus of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. ^[1]

Fossils (mainly larvae) of these dragonflies have been found in the Miocene of Italy (age range: from 7.246 to 5.332 million years ago). ^[2]

The type species is Oryctodiplax gypsorum. ^[2] It was a species resistant to a highly saline environment, formed in the Mediterranean salinity crisis, occurred during the latest stage of the Miocene, with the isolation of the Mediterranean sea and its subsequent drying. ^[3]

References

1. Encyclopedia of life
2. Fossilworks
3. Thomas SCHLÜTER, Rolf KOHRING and Hans-Jochen GREGOR Dragonflies preserved in transparent gypsum crystals from the Messinian (Upper Miocene) of Alba, northern Italy

• O. Cavallo and P. A. Galletti. 1987. Studi di Carlo Sturani du Odonati e altri insetti fossili del Messiniano albese (Piemonte) con descrizione di Oryctodiplax gypsorum n. gen., n. sp. (Odonata, Libellulidae). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 26(1-2):151-176