A new dragonfly, Austroprotolindenia jurassica (Odonata: Anisoptera), from the Upper Jurassic of Australia

Abstract

Beattie, R.G. & Nel, A., June 2012. A new dragonfly, Austroprotolindenia jurassica (Odonata: Anisoptera), from the Upper Jurassic of Australia. Alcheringa, 189–193. ISSN 0311-5518.

Austroprotolindenia jurassica gen. et sp. nov., a new Mesozoic Australian dragonfly, is described from the Talbragar Fossil Fish Bed (Upper Jurassic) of eastern Australia. It shows some similarities with the Eurasian Mesozoic petalurid family Protolindeniidae, but its incomplete state of preservation prevents us assigning it to a particular anisopteran clade.

Robert G. Beattie [[email protected]] PO Box 320, Berry 2535, NSW, Australia. André Nel [[email protected]] CNRS UMR 7205, CP 50, Entomologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 45 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France. Received 6.4.2011; revised 8.6.2011; accepted 15.6.2011.

Key words:

• Austroprotolindenia new genus
• Talbragar Fish Bed
• Australia

Acknowledgements

Thanks are extended to Mr Nigel McGrath, landowner, and Mr Michael Sharpe, Head Ranger, National Parks and Wildlife of New South Wales (Mudgee Office), who have supported ongoing fieldwork at the site. We sincerely thank G. Bechly and G. Fleck for their very useful comments on the first version of the paper.