Insecta - Diptera - Palaeophoridae

Alternative combination: Archiphora ancestrix

Full reference: B. B. Rohdendorf. 1938. Dvukrylye basekomye Mezozoya Kara-Tau. I. Brachycera i chast' Nematocera. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 7:29-67

Belongs to Palaeophora according to A. Nagatomi and D. Yang 1998

See also Rohdendorf 1938 and Rohdendorf 1951

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PIN 2452/329, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Karatau-Galkino (PIN collection 2452), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.

Distribution: found only at Karatau-Galkino (PIN collection 2452)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.