A species from one wingSourced
No whole dragonfly.
Just a fossil wing.
An early Eocene fossil from Washington state preserves a single dragonfly hindwing. Researchers used its vein pattern to describe the extinct species Antiquiala snyderae in 2019. No other fossil of the species is known.
One wing carried
enough clues for a name.
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