Insecta - Diptera - Protopleciidae
Full reference: B. B. Rohdendorf. 1938. Dvukrylye basekomye Mezozoya Kara-Tau. I. Brachycera i chast' Nematocera. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 7:29-67
Parent taxon: Protopleciidae according to X. Q. Lin et al. 2014
See also Carpenter 1992 and Kovalev 1985
Sister taxa: Dyspolyneura, Epimesoplecia, Hebeiplecia, Huaxiapleciinae, Mesopleciella, Palaeohesperinus guidongensis, Palaeoplecia, Paraoligus, Pleciopsis, Protoligoneura, Protoplecia, Pseudoplecia, Sinoplecia, Sunoplecia, Pleciodictya
Subtaxa: Mesoplecia anfracta Mesoplecia coadnata Mesoplecia fastigata Mesoplecia jurassica Mesoplecia mediana Mesoplecia oleynikovi Mesoplecia plena Mesoplecia sibirica Mesoplecia sinica Mesoplecia stigma Mesoplecia xinboensis
Type: Mesoplecia jurassica
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (1 collection)
• Jurassic of China (3), Kazakhstan (3), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 10 collections including 13 occurrences
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