Full reference: F. L. Carle and D. C. Wighton. 1990. Insects from the Santana Formation, Lower Cretaceous, of Brazil. Chapter 3: Odonata. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 195:51-68
Parent taxon: Anisoptera according to J. Zhang 1999
See also Carle and Wighton 1990
Sister taxa: Aeschna eudore, Aeschna parkinsoni, Cercus, Cercus clavus, Cordulia scheuchzeri, Cratopetaliidae, Cymatophlebia mongolica, Dissurus, Dissurus liauyuanensis, Dissurus qinquanensis, Epigomphidae, Euanisoptera, Hageniidae, Henrotayiidae, Ictinogomphus fur, Ixtahua, Juragomphidae, Kazakhophlebiella, Libanoaeshnidae, Libellula calypso, Libellula doris, Libellula eurynome, Libellula melobasis, Libellula perse, Libellula thetis, Libellula thoe, Magnathemidae, Megaphlebiidae, Miopetalura orientalis, Necrogomphus, Nothomacromiidae, Petalurida, Pritykiniella, Proterogomphidae, Stenogomphus scudderi
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Aeschnidioidea in the database