Insecta - Odonata - Proterogomphidae
Full reference: G. Bechly, A. Nel, X. Martínez-Delclòs and G. Fleck. 1998. Four new dragonflies from the Upper Jurassic of Germany and the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia (Anisoptera: Hemeroscopidae, Sonidae, and Proterogomphidae fam. nov.). Odonatologica 27(2):149-187
Parent taxon: Anisoptera according to G. Bechly 2010
See also Bechly et al. 1998
Sister taxa: Aeschna eudore, Aeschna parkinsoni, Aeschnidioidea, Cercus, Cercus clavus, Cordulia scheuchzeri, Cratopetaliidae, Cymatophlebia mongolica, Dissurus, Dissurus liauyuanensis, Dissurus qinquanensis, Epigomphidae, Euanisoptera, Hageniidae, Henrotayiidae, Ictinogomphus fur, Ixtahua, Juragomphidae, Kazakhophlebiella, Libellula calypso, Libellula doris, Libellula eurynome, Libellula melobasis, Libellula perse, Libellula thetis, Libellula thoe, Libelluloidea, Magnathemidae, Megaphlebiidae, Miopetalura orientalis, Necrogomphus, Nothomacromiidae, Petalurida, Pritykiniella, Stenogomphus scudderi
Subtaxa: Cordulagomphinae Lingomphus Proterogomphus
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Brazil (9 collections), China (2), Mongolia (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Jurassic of Germany (1)
Total: 14 collections including 29 occurrences