Suborder Lepisosteioidei

Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes

Alternative spelling: Lepisostoidei

Parent taxon: Lepisosteiformes according to A. López-Arbarello 2012

See also Case and Schwimmer 1988 and Thurmond and Jones 1981

Sister taxa: Isanichthys, Lanxangichthys, Lepidotes, Scheenstia, Sheenstia

Subtaxa: Araripelepidotes Lepisosteoidea Pliodetes

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Distribution:

• Quaternary of Canada (1: Quebec collection), United States (22: Florida, Georgia, Kansas, South Dakota, Texas)

• Blancan of United States (2: Florida)

• Hemphillian of United States (1: Florida)

• Miocene of Germany (1), Panama (1), United States (23: Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Nebraska, Texas, Virginia)

• Oligocene of United States (1: South Carolina)

• Eocene of Belgium (1), Canada (4: Northwest Territories, Northwest Territory, Saskatchewan), France (4), Germany (1), Pakistan (1), Romania (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (84: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming)

• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1)

• Paleocene of Bolivia (1), Canada (4: Alberta, Saskatchewan), India (1), Spain (1), United States (33: Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, Utah, Wyoming)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of India (1), United States (1: Arkansas)

• Cretaceous of Algeria (3), Argentina (32), Austria (2), Bolivia (1), Brazil (8), Canada (77: Alberta, Nunavut, Saskatchewan), Colombia (1), Egypt (1), France (17), Germany (1), Hungary (3), India (14), Libya (1), Madagascar (2), Mexico (10), Morocco (4), Niger (2), Portugal (2), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (12), Sudan (1), Sweden (1), Syria (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (226: Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (4)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of South Africa (1)

Total: 631 collections including 674 occurrences

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