Insecta - Diptera

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1878. The Fossil Insects of the Green River Shales. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 4(4):747-776

Parent taxon: Schizophora according to J. F. Gibson and J. H. Skevington 2013

See also Scudder 1890

Sister taxa: Acalyptratae, Acartophthalmidae, Agromyzidae, Asteiidae, Aulacigastridae, Calyptratae, Carnidae, Chloropidae, Clusiidae, Cretaphormia, Ephydroidea, Hoffeinsia, Hoffeinsmyiidae, Lauxanioidea, Milichiidae, Neurochaetidae, Odiniidae, Opomyzidae, Periscelididae, Sciomyzoidea, Sepsidae, Sphaeroceridae, Tephritoidea, Yantaromyiidae

Subtaxa: Poliomyia recta

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Petrified fish cut (Richardson Coll) (Eocene of Wyoming)

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