Insecta - Diptera - Palaeophoridae
Synonym: Archiphoridae Rohdendorf 1938 [replaced name]
Full reference: B. B. Rohdendorf. 1951. Organy dvizheniya dvukrylykh nasekomykh i ikh proiskhozhdenie. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 35:1-179
Parent taxon: Nematocera according to T. Pape et al. 2011
See also Carpenter 1992, Nagatomi and Yang 1998 and Rohdendorf 1951
Sister taxa: Amblylexis, Amianta, Amphipromeca, Apistogrypotes, Asiochaoboridae, Asuba, Axymyioidea, Axymyiomorpha, Bibionites, Blephariceromorpha, Bodephora, Clavapartus, Culiciscolex, Cyrtomides, Dara, Elliidae, Ellipibodus, Empidocampe, Eoculex, Eopolyneuridae, Hongocaloneura, Hongocaloneuridae, Hyperpolyneuridae, Meconeura, Mesophantasmatidae, Mesosciophilidae, Nymphomyiomorpha, Palaeoerioptera, Paradictyodiptera, Penthetria vaillantii, Platyplecia, Plecia nigrescens, Propexis, Protendipedidae, Ptychopteromorpha, Rhopaloscolex, Sama, Serendipidae, Sphallonymphites, Strashilidae, Tipulomorpha, Tipulopleciidae, Venapaucia
Subtaxa: Palaeophora
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Karatau-Galkino (PIN collection 2452) (Jurassic of Kazakhstan)