Superorder Odonatoptera Lameere, 1900

Family uncertain

(Fig. 3A)

Material. NIGP 180148, fragment of the costal area of a wing.

Remarks. The absence of a kink in ScP and of a distinct nodal furrow strongly suggest that this wing fragment does not belong to Panodonata (sensu Bechly, 1996). Its nodus fits better with that of a ‘Protozygoptera’ of the superfamily Permagrionoidea Tillyard, 1928. These also have aligned nodal crossing and subnodus, numerous postnodal and postsubnodal crossveins, and the base of RP2 distad subnodus, as in this fossil (Nel et al., 2012). But the Permagrionoidea are strictly Permian to date, the presence of a representative of this group in the early Jurassic would be quite surprising. This wing could also correspond to a case of reversal in the nodal structures, somewhat similar to the situation in the Mesozoic anisopteran Aeschnidiidae or the Cenozoic zygopteran Sieblosiidae that have ScP crossing through the nodus (Fleck & Nel, 2003).