The Cephalozygoptera, a new, extinct suborder of Odonata with new taxa from the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands, western North America
Author
Archibald, Bruce
Author
Cannings, Robert A.
0000-0001-9491-8186
annings@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca
Author
Erickson, Robert J.
0000-0003-1162-0355
1990platypus@gmail.com
Author
Bybee, Seth M.
0000-0001-6224-6303
seth.bybee@gmail.com
Author
Mathewes, Rolf W.
0000-0001-7637-199X
r_mathewes@sfu.ca
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-02-24
4934
1
1
133
journal article
7439
10.11646/zootaxa.4934.1.1
300bac18-55f5-4e34-90e1-7fccd02d68c1
1175-5326
4558796
79895443-4597-42A5-AF8A-023EACB20E10
Whetwhetaksa
Archibald & Cannings
,
new genus
Figs. 66–70
.
Diagnosis.
As for family.
Type
species.
Whetwhetaksa millerae
.
Description.
With the character states of its only species, below.
Etymology
. The genus name is formed from the word in the language of the Colville Indian tribe x̌ʷətx̌ʷətaqs, meaning odonate, pronounced “
whetwhetaks
”. The Republic site where the only known fossils of this family have been found is on the traditional land of the Colville Indian Tribe, immediately north of the current Colville Reserve. Gender, feminine.
Range and age
. Republic localities B4131 and A0307B of the Tom Thumb Tuff Member of the Klondike Mountain Formation; latest Ypresian.