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507 / Paleozoic
Eugeropteron
Eugeropteron lunatum
A basal odonatopteran retained a more primitive wing base than modern dragonflies.
View original image · 1600 × 1067- Time range
- About 325 million years ago
- Final stage
- Early Carboniferous
- Geographic range
- River forests and wetlands · Argentina
01 / DEFINITION & ECOLOGY
What was Eugeropteron?
Eugeropteron (Eugeropteron lunatum) was an extinct organism known from About 325 million years ago, with a range in River forests and wetlands · Argentina.
Life and ecology
It likely hunted small insects along waterways while juveniles lived near shallow water.
02 / DISAPPEARANCE
Why did Eugeropteron disappear?
Later odonatopterans had refined flight structures, but a younger fauna does not by itself show that they replaced this early branch.
03 / EVIDENCE
How do scientists know about Eugeropteron?
Wing fossils preserve basal articulation and venation central to the origin of dragonfly flight.
04 / SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Check the source record
Use the scientific name to compare taxonomy, occurrence records and the fossil record. Database coverage and classifications may differ.
05 / REVISION HISTORY
How has this record changed?
- Rewrote an extinction cause that presented environmental or faunal turnover as established; it is now given as context the record does not prove.
- Verified authoritative entity sources and added three responsive reconstruction sizes.
- Initial bilingual species record published.
06 / CORRECTIONS & ADDITIONS