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Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Geodiversitas, 1(31), p. 7-11, 2009

DOI: 10.5252/g2009n1a1

Instytut Paleobiologii, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 1(53), p. 165-168

DOI: 10.4202/app.2008.0113

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A new dragonfly family from the Upper Cretaceous of France

Journal article published in 2008 by André Nel, Vincent Perrichot ORCID, Didier Neraudeau, Vincent Girard, Bernard Gomez
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Abstract

The new aeshnopteran family Enigmaeshnidae is proposed for Enigmaeshna deprei gen. et sp. nov., the first fossil insect collected as imprint in the Earliest Cenomanian clay of the Puy-Puy quarry at Tormay-Charente (Charente-Maritime, SW France). The bed bearing E. deprei was previously known for its highly diversified fossil plant assemblage. Although this taxon belongs to the much derived clade Aeshnodea, it is characterized by several unique hind wing venation characters, never found in other Aeshnoptera, viz. part of MAb distal of the trigonal planate very long, and presence of five posterior branches of AA directed towards posterior wing margin.