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Steleopteridae
Steleopteridae is a family of extinct winged damselflies whose fossils have been found in modern Germany, Great Britain and Kazakhstan, and which lived at the end of the Jurassic and the beginning of the Cretaceous (166.1–130.0 million years ago). The family was described by the Austrian paleoentomologist Anton Handlirsch in 1906 on the basis of the fossilised exoskeleton ''Steleopteron deichmuelleri''. Hence, the type genus is ''Steleopteron''. Handlirsch assigned the family to the Epiproctophora. In 2001, the family was excluded from the Epiproctophora and transferred into a suborder of winged damselflies, Zygoptera. Until 2018, it had been believed that Steleopteridae became extinct in the Jurassic, but the discovery of ''Steleopteron cretacicus'' showed that the family may have become extinct as late as the Cretaceous. They were fast flying Insectivore, insectivorous/Carnivore, carnivorous predators. According to the Fossilworks Database website, as of November 2019, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steleopteron
''Steleopteon'' is a genus of extinct winged damselflies whose fossils have been found in modern Germany, and Great Britain, and which lived at the end of the Jurassic and the beginning of the Cretaceous (150.8 to 130 million years ago). The genus was described by the Austrian paleoentomologist Anton Handlirsch in 1906 on the basis of the fossilised exoskeleton ''Steleopteron deichmuelleri''. Until 2018, it had been believed that the genus became extinct in the Jurassic, but the discovery of ''Steleopteron cretacicus'' showed that the genus and the family may have become extinct as late as the Cretaceous. In 2001, Günther Fleck, Fleck and others transferred the family, Steleopteridae to a suborder of winged damselflies, Zygoptera. They were fast flying Insectivore, insectivorous/Carnivore, carnivorous predators. According to the Fossilworks Database website, as of November 2019, the genus includes two extinct species: *''Steleopteron cretacicus'' Zheng et al. 2018 *''Stele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
