Steleopteron cretacicus

is a species of extinct winged damselfly from the Jurassic family Steleopteridae that lived in modern Britain during the Early Cretaceous era (136.4–130 million years ago).

[1] It is the first member of the Steleopteridae family, to be found living during the Cretaceous period, to be described,[2] and belongs to the genus Steleopteron.

[1] The discovery of the species showed that the family Steleopteridae had not died out by the Cretaceous period.

[2] The holotype, NHMUK CH 879vii, a fossilized wing, was found n lagoonal sediments in the Weald formation (136.4 – 130.0 Ma) in Surrey, United Kingdom.

The specimen is stored in the Department of Earth Sciences, Museum of Natural History London, UK.

S. cretacicus holotype.
holotype drawing.The scale represents 2 mm.