Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Fossil ovipositions of dragonflies: Review and interpretation

  • Published:
Paleontological Journal Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

The paper deals with the stratigraphic range and morphology of fossil formations on plants interpreted as insect ovipositions. Our analysis of the insect fossil record has shown that the endophytic ovipositions probably belong to the Kennedyina and Triadophlebiina (in the Paleozoic and Lower Mesozoic) and to the Calopterygina (in the Upper Mesozoic and Cenozoic).

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. O. Bethoux, J. Galtier, and A. Nel, “Earliest Evidence of Insect Endophytic Oviposition,” Palaios 19, 408–413 (2004).

    Google Scholar 

  2. N. N. Bogdanov-Kat’kov, Guidebook to Practical Training in General Entomology (Sel’khozgiz, Moscow, 1947) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  3. L. Grauvogel-Stamm and K.-P. Kelber, “Plant-Insect Interactions and Coevolution during the Triassic in Western Europe,” Paleontol. Lombarda, Nov. Ser. 5, 5–23 (1996).

    Google Scholar 

  4. M. Helmund and W. Helmund, “Eiblageverhalten fossiler Kleinlibellen (Odonata, Zygoptera) aus dem Oberoligozän von Rott im Siebengebirge,” Stuttgarter Beitr. Naturk. Ser. B, No. 117, 1–17 (1991).

  5. M. Helmund and W. Helmund, “Eilogen von Zygopteren (Insecta, Odonata, Coenagrionidae) in unteroligozänen Maarsedimenten von Hammerunterwiesenthal (Freistaat Sachsen),” Abh. St. Mus. Mineralog. Geol. Dresden 43/44, 281–292 (1998).

    Google Scholar 

  6. M. Hellmund and W. Hellmund, “Neufunde und Ergänzungen zur Fortpflanzungsbiologie fossiler Kleinlibellen (Insecta, Odonata, Zygoptera),” Stuttgarter Beitr. Naturk. Ser. B, No. 319, 1–26 (2002).

  7. History of Insects, Ed. by A. P. Rasnitsyn and D. L. J. Quicke (Kluwer, Academic, Dodrecht, Boston, London, 2002).

    Google Scholar 

  8. J. Konijnenburg-van Cittert and S. Schmeißner, “Fossil Insect Eggs on Lower Jurassic Plant Remains from Bavaria (Germany),” Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 152, 215–223 (1999).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. A. N. Popova, Dragonfly Larvae of the Fauna of the USSR (Odonata): Identification Guide to the Fauna of the USSr, no. 50 (Akad. Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 1953) [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  10. L. N. Pritykina, “Paleontology and Evolution of Dragonflies,” in Fauna and Ecology of Dragonflies (Nauka, Novosibirsk, 1989), pp. 33–66 [in Russian].

    Google Scholar 

  11. D. V. Vasilenko, “Damages on Mesozoic Plants from the Transbaikalian Locality Chernovskie Kopi,” Paleontol. Zh., No. 6, 54–59 (2005) [Paleontol. J., 39 (6), 628–633 (2005)].

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya ul. 123, Moscow, 117997, Russia

    D. V. Vasilenko & A. P. Rasnitsyn

Authors
  1. D. V. Vasilenko
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. A. P. Rasnitsyn
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to D. V. Vasilenko.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Vasilenko, D.V., Rasnitsyn, A.P. Fossil ovipositions of dragonflies: Review and interpretation. Paleontol. J. 41, 1156–1161 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030107110147

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030107110147

Key words

Search

Navigation