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Oligaeschna kvaceki sp. nov., a new fossil dragonfly (Odonata: Aeshnidae) from the middle Oligocene sediments of northern Moravia (Western Carpathians)

Authors

PROKOP Jakub PŘIKRYL Tomáš DOSTÁL Ondřej NEL André

Year of publication 2007
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Geologica Carpathica
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Field Geology and mineralogy
Keywords Middle Oligocene; Western Carpathians; taxonomy; Insecta; Aeshnidae; Aeshninae
Description A new species of fossil dragonfly Oligaeschna Piton et Theobald, 1939 (O. kvaceki sp. nov.) is described from Middle Oligocene strata of northern Moravia and compared with all closely related species. The current record documents a rather broad distribution and probably also high abundance of Oligaeschna in Eurasia during the Oligocene and Miocene.

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