Superfamily Petaluroidea Needham 1903 (true dragonfly)
Parent taxon: Petalurodea according to G. Bechly 2007
Sister taxon: Cretapetaluridae
Subtaxa: Aktassiidae
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (4 collections), Lebanon (1), Mongolia (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Spain (1)
• Jurassic of Germany (10), Kazakhstan (2)
Total: 20 collections including 24 occurrences