Okanopteryx fraseri

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cephalozygoptera
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Superordo: Odonatoptera Ordo: Odonata Subordo: †Cephalozygoptera

Superfamilia: †"Sieblosioid Group"
Familia: †Dysagrionidae
Subfamilia: †Dysagrioninae
Genus: †Okanopteryx
Species: †Okanopteryx fraseri

Holotype: GSC 141104 (part) & TRU F-778 (counterpart)
- Repository: Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Part)
- Repository: Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada (Counterpart)
  - Collector: John Fraser, date unknown
Paratype: RBCM P1551
- Repository: Royal British Columbia Museum, Belleville Street, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
  - Collector: John Leahy, date unknown
Paratype: TRU F-1091
- Repository: Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
  - Collector: unknown
Paratype: TRU PB-4157
- Repository: Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
  - Collector: unknown
Paratype: TRU F-1045
- Repository: Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
  - Collector: unknown
Paratype: RBCM P1552
- Repository: Royal British Columbia Museum, Belleville Street, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
  - Collector: John Leahy, date unknown

Early Eocene, Ypresian; Eocene Okanogan Highlands; Hoodoo Face Beds (V-016800), McAbee fossil beds, Tranquille Formation?, Kamloops Group; east of Cache Creek, Thompson-Nicola region, south-central British Columbia, Canada

"The specific epithet is a patronymic formed from the surname of John Fraser, the collector and donor of the holotype, recognising his contribution."

Eocene

Ypresian
Eocene Okanagan Highlands
- Tranquille Formation?, Kamloops Group; Hoodoo Face Beds (V-016800), McAbee fossil site, east of Cache Creek, Thompson-Nicola region, British Columbia, Canada

Archibald, S.B., Cannings, R.A., Erickson, R.J., Bybee, S.M. & Mathewes, R.W. 2021. The Cephalozygoptera, a new, extinct suborder of Odonata with new taxa from the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands, western North America. Zootaxa 4934(1): 1–133. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4934.1.1 . Reference page.
Ware J.; Simonsen T.J.; Rasmussen J.A.; Archibald S.B. 2025. Systematics of the extinct suborder Cephalozygoptera (Odonata): a wing-based analysis comparing its genera with those of extant Zygoptera. American Museum Novitates 4043: 1–19.