Allenbya
''Allenbya'' is the scientific name of two genera of organisms and may refer to: * ''Allenbya'' (insect), a genus of prehistoric insects in the order Odonata * ''Allenbya'' (plant), a genus of prehistoric plants in the family Nymphaeaceae {{Genus disambiguation ...
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Allenbya (insect)
''Allenbya'' is an extinct odonate genus possibly in the damselfly-like family Dysagrionidae with the single included species ''Allenbya holmesae''. The genus was first described in 2022 from an Early Eocene Okanagan Highlands site in western North America. The species is known from the late Ypresian sediments exposed around Princeton in Central British Columbia. Distribution ''Allenbya holmesae'' has been recovered from a single location in the Eocene Okanagan Highlands, the type locality being on an exposure of the Allenby Formations Vermilion Bluffs shale unit south Princeton, British Columbia. The formation has a long history of insect fossil collection, with the earliest Okanagan Highlands specimens being collected by the George Mercer Dawson party in 1877 and reported in 1879. The age of the Allenby Formation was debated for many years, with fish and insect fossils hinting at an Eocene age, while mammal and plant fossils suggested a Late Oligocene or Early Miocene a ...
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