diff --git a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/format/converter/ParquetMetadataConverter.java b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/format/converter/ParquetMetadataConverter.java
index 48f295ebf2..089de4adbb 100644
--- a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/format/converter/ParquetMetadataConverter.java
+++ b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/format/converter/ParquetMetadataConverter.java
@@ -429,6 +429,7 @@ private static void addKeyValue(FileMetaData fileMetaData, String key, String va
   private static interface MetadataFilterVisitor<T, E extends Throwable> {
     T visit(NoFilter filter) throws E;
     T visit(SkipMetadataFilter filter) throws E;
+    T visit(RangeMetadataFilter filter) throws E;
     T visit(OffsetMetadataFilter filter) throws E;
   }
 
@@ -452,7 +453,7 @@ public static MetadataFilter offsets(long... offsets) {
     for (long offset : offsets) {
       set.add(offset);
     }
-    return new OffsetListMetadataFilter(set);
+    return new OffsetMetadataFilter(set);
   }
 
   private static final class NoFilter extends MetadataFilter {
@@ -478,16 +479,12 @@ public String toString() {
     }
   }
 
-  interface OffsetMetadataFilter {
-    boolean contains(long offset);
-  }
-
   /**
    * [ startOffset, endOffset )
    * @author Julien Le Dem
    */
   // Visible for testing
-  static final class RangeMetadataFilter extends MetadataFilter implements OffsetMetadataFilter {
+  static final class RangeMetadataFilter extends MetadataFilter {
     final long startOffset;
     final long endOffset;
 
@@ -502,7 +499,6 @@ <T, E extends Throwable> T accept(MetadataFilterVisitor<T, E> visitor) throws E
       return visitor.visit(this);
     }
 
-    @Override
     public boolean contains(long offset) {
       return offset >= this.startOffset && offset < this.endOffset;
     }
@@ -513,10 +509,10 @@ public String toString() {
     }
   }
 
-  static final class OffsetListMetadataFilter extends MetadataFilter implements OffsetMetadataFilter {
+  static final class OffsetMetadataFilter extends MetadataFilter {
     private final Set<Long> offsets;
 
-    public OffsetListMetadataFilter(Set<Long> offsets) {
+    public OffsetMetadataFilter(Set<Long> offsets) {
       this.offsets = offsets;
     }
 
@@ -536,7 +532,7 @@ public ParquetMetadata readParquetMetadata(InputStream from) throws IOException
   }
 
   // Visible for testing
-  static FileMetaData filterFileMetaData(FileMetaData metaData, OffsetMetadataFilter filter) {
+  static FileMetaData filterFileMetaDataByMidpoint(FileMetaData metaData, RangeMetadataFilter filter) {
     List<RowGroup> rowGroups = metaData.getRow_groups();
     List<RowGroup> newRowGroups = new ArrayList<RowGroup>();
     for (RowGroup rowGroup : rowGroups) {
@@ -555,6 +551,19 @@ static FileMetaData filterFileMetaData(FileMetaData metaData, OffsetMetadataFilt
   }
 
   // Visible for testing
+  static FileMetaData filterFileMetaDataByStart(FileMetaData metaData, OffsetMetadataFilter filter) {
+    List<RowGroup> rowGroups = metaData.getRow_groups();
+    List<RowGroup> newRowGroups = new ArrayList<RowGroup>();
+    for (RowGroup rowGroup : rowGroups) {
+      long startIndex = getOffset(rowGroup.getColumns().get(0));
+      if (filter.contains(startIndex)) {
+        newRowGroups.add(rowGroup);
+      }
+    }
+    metaData.setRow_groups(newRowGroups);
+    return metaData;
+  }
+
   static long getOffset(RowGroup rowGroup) {
     return getOffset(rowGroup.getColumns().get(0));
   }
@@ -582,7 +591,12 @@ public FileMetaData visit(SkipMetadataFilter filter) throws IOException {
 
       @Override
       public FileMetaData visit(OffsetMetadataFilter filter) throws IOException {
-        return filterFileMetaData(readFileMetaData(from), filter);
+        return filterFileMetaDataByStart(readFileMetaData(from), filter);
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public FileMetaData visit(RangeMetadataFilter filter) throws IOException {
+        return filterFileMetaDataByMidpoint(readFileMetaData(from), filter);
       }
     });
     if (Log.DEBUG) LOG.debug(fileMetaData);
diff --git a/parquet-hadoop/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/format/converter/TestParquetMetadataConverter.java b/parquet-hadoop/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/format/converter/TestParquetMetadataConverter.java
index eb109c0c34..b9cfde7757 100644
--- a/parquet-hadoop/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/format/converter/TestParquetMetadataConverter.java
+++ b/parquet-hadoop/src/test/java/org/apache/parquet/format/converter/TestParquetMetadataConverter.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 package org.apache.parquet.format.converter;
 
 import static java.util.Collections.emptyList;
+import static org.apache.parquet.format.converter.ParquetMetadataConverter.filterFileMetaDataByStart;
 import static org.apache.parquet.schema.MessageTypeParser.parseMessageType;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertSame;
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@
 import static org.apache.parquet.format.Type.INT32;
 import static org.apache.parquet.format.Util.readPageHeader;
 import static org.apache.parquet.format.Util.writePageHeader;
-import static org.apache.parquet.format.converter.ParquetMetadataConverter.filterFileMetaData;
+import static org.apache.parquet.format.converter.ParquetMetadataConverter.filterFileMetaDataByMidpoint;
 import static org.apache.parquet.format.converter.ParquetMetadataConverter.getOffset;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.TreeSet;
 
+import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
 import org.apache.parquet.column.statistics.BinaryStatistics;
 import org.apache.parquet.hadoop.metadata.BlockMetaData;
 import org.apache.parquet.hadoop.metadata.ColumnChunkMetaData;
@@ -170,7 +172,20 @@ private FileMetaData metadata(long... sizes) {
   }
 
   private FileMetaData filter(FileMetaData md, long start, long end) {
-    return filterFileMetaData(new FileMetaData(md), new ParquetMetadataConverter.RangeMetadataFilter(start, end));
+    return filterFileMetaDataByMidpoint(new FileMetaData(md),
+        new ParquetMetadataConverter.RangeMetadataFilter(start, end));
+  }
+
+  private FileMetaData find(FileMetaData md, Long... blockStart) {
+    return filterFileMetaDataByStart(new FileMetaData(md),
+        new ParquetMetadataConverter.OffsetMetadataFilter(
+            Sets.newHashSet((Long[]) blockStart)));
+  }
+
+  private FileMetaData find(FileMetaData md, long blockStart) {
+    return filterFileMetaDataByStart(new FileMetaData(md),
+        new ParquetMetadataConverter.OffsetMetadataFilter(
+            Sets.newHashSet(blockStart)));
   }
 
   private void verifyMD(FileMetaData md, long... offsets) {
@@ -242,6 +257,18 @@ public void testFilterMetaData() {
     verifyAllFilters(metadata(11, 9, 10), 8);
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testFindRowGroups() {
+    verifyMD(find(metadata(50, 50, 50), 0), 0);
+    verifyMD(find(metadata(50, 50, 50), 50), 50);
+    verifyMD(find(metadata(50, 50, 50), 100), 100);
+    verifyMD(find(metadata(50, 50, 50), 0L, 50L), 0, 50);
+    verifyMD(find(metadata(50, 50, 50), 0L, 50L, 100L), 0, 50, 100);
+    verifyMD(find(metadata(50, 50, 50), 50L, 100L), 50, 100);
+    // doesn't find an offset that isn't the start of a row group.
+    verifyMD(find(metadata(50, 50, 50), 10));
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void randomTestFilterMetaData() {
     // randomized property based testing