Odonata Insect Fossils - Dragonfly & Damselfly

Insect Order Odonata comprise the Dragonflies (suborder anisotera) and damselflies (suborder zygoptera), and like cockroaches is one of the oldest types of insects. They appeared in the Devonian during the Paleozoic, a time when their distant cousins, the trilobites, were still abundant. This ancient, fixed-wing design apparently is a good one, given that there are some 5500 extant species known of Odonata.

Dragonfly and Damselfly Fossils
Stenophlebia latreilli Dragonfly Fossil Late Jurassic Solnhofen, Germany	Cordulagomphus tuberculatus Dragonfly Fossil Cretaceous Crato Formation, Brazil	Protolindenia Dragonfly Fossil Late Jurassic Solnhofen, Germany	Dragonfly Sinaeshcnidia cancellosa Lower Cretaceous Liaoning Province of China
Family Chlorocypidae Damselfly Fossil Eocene Green River Formation, Utah	Protolindenia Dragonfly Fossil Late Jurassic Solnhofen, Germany