Cretodromia
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''Cretodromia'' is a genus of
true fly Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced m ...
in the family
Atelestidae Atelestidae is a family of flies in the superfamily Empidoidea. The four genera were placed in a separate family in 1983; they were formerly either in Platypezidae (which are not even particularly closely related) or considered ''incertae sedis'' ...
. ''Cretodromia'' contains no living members, with the only known species ''Cretodromia glaesa'' having existed in the Campanian age of the
Late Cretaceous The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous Series. The Cretaceous is named after ''creta'', the ...
epoch.


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Empidoidea Prehistoric Diptera genera {{Diptera-stub