A new basal hawker dragonfly from the earliest Late Jurassic of Daohugou, northeastern China (Odonata: Anisoptera: Mesuropetalidae) - MNHN - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Access content directly
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A new basal hawker dragonfly from the earliest Late Jurassic of Daohugou, northeastern China (Odonata: Anisoptera: Mesuropetalidae)

Loup Boudet
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André Nel
Diying Huang

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Sinomesuropetala daohugensis gen. nov. et sp. nov., first accurate Chinese representative of the Mesozoic family Mesuropetalidae, is described from the Haifanggou Formation near the Daohugou village in northeastern China. The exceptional preservation of the fossil allows the description of reproductive structures seldom observed in compression fossils. It confirms the high diversity of the ‘basal’ Aeshnoptera during the Middle-Late Jurassic, especially in China. This new finding confirms the widespread distribution of the Mesuropetalidae during the Jurassic.
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mnhn-04038775 , version 1 (21-03-2023)

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Loup Boudet, André Nel, Diying Huang. A new basal hawker dragonfly from the earliest Late Jurassic of Daohugou, northeastern China (Odonata: Anisoptera: Mesuropetalidae). Historical Biology, In press, ⟨10.1080/08912963.2022.2086804⟩. ⟨mnhn-04038775⟩
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