Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Full reference: V. A. Blagoderov and D. Grimaldi. 2004. Fossil Sciaroidea (Diptera) in Cretaceous ambers, exclusive of Cecidomyiidae, Sciaridae, and Keroplatidae. American Museum Novitates 3433:1-76

Belongs to Saigusaia according to S. S. Oliveira and D. D. S. Amorim 2021

See also Blagoderov and Grimaldi 2004

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: TMP 79/15/7/21, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (TMP coll), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in the Foremost Formation of Canada.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (TMP coll)

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