Family Tanyderidae Osten-Sacken 1879 (primitive crane fly)
Insecta - Diptera - Tanyderidae
Parent taxon: Ptychopteromorpha according to D. K. Yeates et al. 2007
See also Carpenter 1992, Evenhuis 1994, Kalugina 1985, Kalugina 1992, Krzemiński 1992 and Krzemiński and Krzemińska 2003
Sister taxa: Ansorgiidae, Eoptychopteroidea, Ptychopteridae, Tanyderophrynidae
Subtaxa: Nannotanyderinae Protoplasa Tanyderinae Tanyderites
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Poland (3 collections), the Russian Federation (8), Ukraine (1)
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (1), Mongolia (1), Myanmar (5), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Jurassic of China (4), Germany (6), Kazakhstan (7), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (3), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 45 collections including 68 occurrences