I am doing research on Carboniferous "griffonflies" for a personal side project (I am not an entomologist by trade), and I am trying to find out just how similar or different these animals were to modern odonatans. I have heard from several sources that these animals had "large, toothed mandibles" (Grimaldi and Engel, 2005) or "well-developed raptorial mandibles" (Labandeira, 2002), but I cannot seem to find any good pictures of these appendages. Does anyone know any paper where these are described (possibly along with what we know about the paleobiology of the griffonflies?)
Hi,
try and contact Günther Bechly in Stuttgart. As far as I know he has done a lot of work on fossil Odonata.
http://www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/forschung/palaeontology/bechly
Kind regards,
Frank
Hello!
There are some taxonomic/ systematic articles that could be of your interest:
Nel et al. 2009. Revision of Permo-Carboniferous griffenflies (Insecta: Odonatoptera: Meganisoptera) based upon new species and redescription of selected poorly known taxa from Eurasia.;
Kukalová-Peck 2009. Carboniferous protodonatoid dragonfly nymphs and the synapomorphies of Odonatoptera and Ephemeroptera (Insecta: Palaeoptera).;
Bechly et al. 2001. New results concerning the morphology of the most ancient dragonfies (Insecta: Odonatoptera) from the Namurian of Hagen-Vorhalle (Germany).
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