Azar Dany, Maksoud Sibelle, Abi-Saad Pierre, Nel Andre
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Nanjing; Jiangsu; 210008; China; Department of Natural Sciences; Faculty of Sciences II; Lebanese University; P.O. Box: 26110217; Fanar; Matn; Lebanon.
Memory of Time; Byblos old sook; Byblos; Lebanon.
Zootaxa. 2024 Aug 22;5497(1):142-150. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.1.9.
The new family Libanoaeshnidae fam. nov., with the new genus and species Libanoaeshna mikhaeli gen. et sp. nov., are characterised, described and illustrated from Haqel, the famous upper Cenomanian fossil fish outcrop of Lebanon. This is the first time that a fossil insect is reported from this site. Libanoaeshnidae fam. nov., together with three other Cretaceous families, can be included in the stem group of the modern Aeshnodea Bechly, 1996, confirming the important diversification of this clade during this period, even if the oldest known representatives of the Aeshnidae sensu stricto are still Eocene.
新的黎巴嫩蜓蜻科（Libanoaeshnidae fam. nov.），连同新属新种米氏黎巴嫩蜓蜻（Libanoaeshna mikhaeli gen. et sp. nov.），是根据黎巴嫩著名的晚森诺曼阶化石鱼类露头哈凯尔（Haqel）进行特征描述和绘图的。这是首次从该地点报道化石昆虫。黎巴嫩蜓蜻科（Libanoaeshnidae fam. nov.）与其他三个白垩纪科一起，可以归入现代蜓蜻总科（Aeshnodea Bechly，1996）的干群，这证实了该分支在这一时期的重要多样化，即使严格意义上蜓蜻科已知最古老的代表仍然是始新世的。
