Abstract
Molecular data along with fossils are being used increasingly to recover time-calibrated phylogenetic trees. Recently there have been manuscripts that have used divergence dating to understand evolutionary history of certain clades within Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies), yet the number of such articles is still low. We examined the Odonata fossil record and made a list of fossils that can be used for divergence time analysis. In this manuscript we provide a detailed review of the known crown group fossils for the order Odonata and nine nodes within this clade: Zygoptera, Epiprocta, Anisoptera, Aeshnidae, Gomphidae, Cavilabiata, Macromiidae, Corduliidae, and Libellulidae. Manpreet Kaur Kohli. Rutgers University, 195 University Ave, Newark, NJ 07102, USA. mkk24@njit.edu Jessica L. Ware. Rutgers University, 195 University Ave, Newark, NJ 07102, USA. jware@amnh.org Gunter Bechly. Department of Paleontology, State Museum of Natural History, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany. guenter.bechly@smns-bw.de (corresponding author)
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