Allenbya holmesae

Allenbya holmesae
Temporal range: Late Ypresian ~
holotype wing
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Odonata
Family: Dysagrionidae (?)
Genus: Allenbya
Archibald & Cannings, 2022
Species:
A. holmesae
Binomial name
Allenbya holmesae
Archibald & Cannings, 2022

Allenbya is an extinct odonate genus possibly in the damselfly-like family Dysagrionidae with the single included species Allenbya holmesae. The genus was first described in 2022 from an early Eocene Okanagan Highlands site in western North America. The species is known from the Late Ypresian sediments exposed around Princeton in Central British Columbia.

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