Superfamily Simulioidea Newman 1834 (fly)
Parent taxon: Culicomorpha according to M. A. Bertone et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Chironomoidea, Culicoidea
Subtaxa: Kaluginamyiidae Simuliidae Thaumaleidae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Cook Islands (2 collections), French Polynesia (2), Greenland (1), the United Kingdom (4)
• Oligocene of Germany (2)
• Eocene of Poland (1), the Russian Federation (6), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (7), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Jurassic of the Russian Federation (4)
Total: 35 collections including 47 occurrences