Stenophlebiidae Temporal range: Upper Jurassic - Upper Cretaceous
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Stenophlebia latreillei, Upper Jurassic, Solnhofen Plattenkalk, in private collection | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Odonata |
Infraorder: | †Stenophlebioptera |
Superfamily: | †Stenophlebioidea |
Family: | †Stenophlebiidae Needham, 1903 |
Type genus | |
Stenophlebia Hagen, 1866
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The Stenophlebiidae is an extinct family of medium-sized to large fossil odonates from the Upper Jurassic and Cretaceous period that belongs to the damsel-dragonfly grade ("anisozygopteres") within the stem group of Anisoptera. They are characterized by their long and slender wings, and the transverse shape of the discoidal triangles in their wing venation.