Insecta - Coleoptera - Liadytidae
Full reference: A. G. Ponomarenko. 1977. Suborder Adephaga, Polyphaga Incertae Sedis, Infraorder Staphyliniformia, in Mezozoiskie zhestkokryiye. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 161:17-119
Parent taxon: Adephaga according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011 and Carpenter 1992
Sister taxa: Amarodes, Amphizoidae, Amphoxyne, Carabidae, Carabiformia, Chimaerocoleus, Cicindelidae, Colymbotethidae, Coptoclavidae, Curculionites, Dytiscidae, Dytiscoidea, Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Hygrobiidae, Longurius, Memptus, Noteridae, Oryctites, Parahygrobiidae, Pseudomorphinae, Trachypachidae, Triadogyrus, Triaplidae, Tritarsusidae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (1 collection), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (5)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (1)
• Jurassic of Mongolia (5), the Russian Federation (7)
Total: 20 collections including 24 occurrences