The Odonatoptera are a superorder (sometimes treated as an order) of ancient winged insects, placed in the probably paraphyletic group Palaeoptera. The dragonflies and damselflies are the only living members of this group, which was far more diverse in the late Paleozoic and contained gigantic species, including the griffinflies (colloquially called "giant dragonflies", although they were not dragonflies in the strict sense) of the order Meganisoptera (formerly Protodonata). This lineage dates back at least to the Bashkirian, not quite 320 million years ago. [1]
The Odonatoptera are a superorder (sometimes treated as an order) of ancient winged insects, placed in the probably paraphyletic group Palaeoptera. The...
synonymous with the superorder Odonatoptera, but not including the prehistoric Protodonata. In this approach, instead of Odonatoptera, the term Odonatoidea is...
André; Fleck, Günther; Garrouste, Romain & Gand, Georges (2008). "The Odonatoptera of the Late Permian Lodève Basin (Insecta)". Journal of Iberian Geology...
Jakub (2009). "Revision of Permo-Carboniferous griffenflies (Insecta: Odonatoptera: Meganisoptera) based upon new species and redescription of selected...
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a member of the infraclass Hydropalaeoptera, which also includes the Odonatoptera (dragonflies, damselflies and extinct relatives) and Panephemeroptera...
Jouault, C.; Nam, Gi-Soo; Nel, A. (2023-09-02). "Koreaphlebia gen. nov. (Odonatoptera: Triadophlebiomorpha): new evidence of a Triassic age for the Amisan...
"Systematics and evolution of Paleozoic and Mesozoic damselfly-like Odonatoptera of the 'protozygopteran' grade". Journal of Paleontology. 86 (1): 81–104...
Fleck, Gunther; GARROUSTE, Romain; Gand, Georges (2008-08-10). "The Odonatoptera of the Late Permian Lodève Basin (Insecta)". Journal of Iberian Geology...
order Megasecoptera, but a restudy instead assigned it to the superorder Odonatoptera. Jan-Michael Ilger and Carsten Brauckmann (2012). "First report of Namurian...
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