Family Sciomyzidae Fallen 1820 (marsh fly)
Insecta - Diptera - Sciomyzidae
Parent taxon: Sciomyzoidea according to B. M. Wiegmann et al. 2011
See also Carpenter 1992 and Whalley and Jarzembowski 1985
Sister taxa: Conopidae, Natalimyzidae
Subtaxa: Dominimyza Heleomyza humilis Palaeoheteromyza Phaeomyiinae Salticellinae Sciomyzinae Sepedonites
Type: Sciomyza
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Tanzania (1 collection)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1)
• Oligocene of France (3)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Denmark (1), the Russian Federation (6), United States (6: Colorado, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Spain (1)
Total: 20 collections including 33 occurrences