Caraphlebia
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| Genus: | †Caraphlebia Carpenter, 1969
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| Species: | †C. antarctica
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Caraphlebia is an extinct genus of dragonflies, known from the Early Jurassic of Antarctica. It is one of the only named fossil insects from Antarctica that have been formally described others are two Beetles, Grahamelytron crofti and Ademosynoides Antarctica, both from a Jurassic deposit on Mount Flora Formation. Caraphlebia is related to the genus Liassophlebia, but the hind wing has several weak antenodals in addition to the two strong, primary ones.[1]
References
- ^ Carpenter, Frank M. (1969). "Fossil Insects From Antarctica". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 76 (4): 418–425. doi:10.1155/1969/17070. ISSN 0033-2615.
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