Synonym: Mesogomphus Handlirsch 1906 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Anisoptera according to A. Nel et al. 1998
See also Carpenter 1992, Handlirsch 1906 and Jordan 1963
Sister taxa: Aeschna eudore, Aeschna parkinsoni, Aeschnidioidea, Cercus, Cercus clavus, Cordulia scheuchzeri, Cratopetaliidae, Cymatophlebia mongolica, Dissurus, Dissurus liauyuanensis, Dissurus qinquanensis, Epigomphidae, Euanisoptera, Hageniidae, Henrotayiidae, Ictinogomphus fur, Ixtahua, Juragomphidae, Kazakhophlebiella, Libellula calypso, Libellula doris, Libellula eurynome, Libellula melobasis, Libellula perse, Libellula thetis, Libellula thoe, Libelluloidea, Magnathemidae, Megaphlebiidae, Miopetalura orientalis, Nothomacromiidae, Petalurida, Pritykiniella, Proterogomphidae, Stenogomphus scudderi
Subtaxa: Necrogomphus petrificatus
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution: found only at Dinton, Vale of Wardour, Middle Purbeck (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)
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