Two new odonate-like insect wings from the latest Norian of northern Germany

Abstract

Two new well preserved odonate (damsel-dragonflies) insect wings from the latest Norian (Upper Triassic) of two different localities are described. Although the rather long distance of more than 250 km separates the localities, the holotypes occur in comparable lithologies and are thus described together. We describe an odonate forewing, Italophlebia baueri sp. n., from an abandoned quarry at Langenberg near Seinstedt north of the Harz Mountains (Lower Saxony), which is the first occurrence of this genus outside Italy. The second wing, Triassothemis gartzii sp. n., was found in the cored well Gartz 1 (NE Germany). In both occurrences the insect wings were associated with abundant autochthonous as well as allochthonous faunal and floral remnants of shallow subaquatic environments.