Protomyrmeleon brunonis Geinitz, 1888

Taxonomy

Damselfly

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Protozygoptera
Family: Protomyrmeleontidae
Genus: Protomyrmeleon
Species: Protomyrmeleon brunonis
Author Citation Geinitz, 1888

Geological Time Scale

Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Jurassic
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Early
International Age: Sinemurian - Pliensbachian

Stratigraphy

Charmouth Mudstone Formation

Provenance

Collector: T. Bastelberger
Date Collected: 06/01/1982
Acquired by: Field Collection

Location

Charmouth
Dorset
South West England
United Kingdom

• ant-lion
• bascharagensis
• brunonis
• charmouth
• damselfly
• jurassic
• protomyrmeleon
• tff-oilshale-ar428

Comments

Synonym: Protomyrmeleon bascharagensis Nel and Henrotay 1992

Unfortunately, three wings are on top of each other.
 

References:

F. E. Geinitz. 1888. Beitrag zur Geologie Mecklenburgs. Archiv des Vereins der Freunde der Naturgeschichte in Mecklenburg 41:143-216

W. Zessin 1991. Die Phylogenie der Protomyrmeleontidae unter Einbeziehung neuer oberliassischer Funde (Odonata: Archizygoptera sens. nov.). Odonatologica 20(1): 97-126.

A. Nel, J. F. Petrulevicius, X. Martínez-Delclòs. 2005. NEW MESOZOIC PROTOMYRMELEONTIDAE (INSECTA: ODONATOPTERA: ARCHIZYGOPTERA) FROM ASIA WITH A NEW PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 3 (2): 187-201.

W. Zessin. 2007. Variabilität und Formenkonstanz – Schlüssel für die Beurteilung fossiler Insekten. Virgo, Mitteilungsblatt des Entomologischen  , 10. Jahrgang, Heft 1, pp. 45-56.

G. Bechly. 2018. Chrismooreia michaelbehei gen. et sp. nov. (Insecta: Odonata: Asiopteridae), a new fossil damsel-dragonfly from the Early Jurassic of England. BIO-Complexity 2018 (1):1–10