Petaluridae

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title: Petaluridae
text: The petaltails of the family Petaluridae are among the most ancient of the extant true dragonflies, having fossil members from as early as the Jurassic, over 150 million years ago. A 2024 molecular phylogeny found that the petaltails comprise two clades, a Gondwanan clade and a Laurasian clade. Their divergence time was estimated at 160 million years ago. Modern petalurids include only 11 species, one of which, the Australian Petalura ingentissima, is by some measurements the largest of living d
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description: Family of dragonflies
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petaluridae
date created: 2003-10-19T02:15:35Z
date modified: 2024-09-04T08:24:08Z
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fields total: 13
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