Insecta - Odonata - Gomphaeschnidae
Parent taxon: Neoaeshnida according to G. Bechly 2007
See also Bechly et al. 2001, Wappler 2003 and Zhang et al. 2008
Sister taxon: Aeshnodea
Subtaxa: Cretalloaeschna Falsisophoaeschna Gomphaeschnaoidinae Gomphaeschninae Sophoaeschna
Type: Gomphaeschna
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Japan (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), China (1), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (1), Denmark (1), Germany (1), United States (1: Idaho)
• Oligocene of France (1), Kazakhstan (1)
• Eocene of Denmark (2), Germany (1), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (3), United States (2: Colorado, Montana)
• Paleocene of Canada (6: Alberta), United States (1: North Dakota)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (1), Brazil (10), China (4), Mongolia (2), Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 50 collections including 65 occurrences