Clade Petalurodea Bechly 1996 (true dragonfly)
Full reference: G. Bechly. 1996. Morphologische Untersuchungen am Flügelgeäder der rezenten Libellen und deren Stammgruppenvertreter (Insecta; Pterygota; Odonata) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der phylogenetischen Systematik und des Grundplanes der Odonata. Petalura, Special-Volume 2:1-402
Parent taxon: Petalurida according to G. Bechly 2007
Sister taxa: Petaluridae, Protolindeniidae
Subtaxa: Cretapetaluridae Petaluroidea
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Brazil (4 collections), China (4), Lebanon (1), Mongolia (1), the United Kingdom (2)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Spain (1)
• Jurassic of Germany (10), Kazakhstan (2)
Total: 25 collections including 29 occurrences