†family Coelolepidae Pander 1856
Alternative spelling: Coelolepididae
Parent taxon: Thelodontida according to T. Marss and V. Karatajute-Talimaa 2002
See also Donoghue and Smith 2001 and Sansom and Elliott 2002
Sister taxa: Palaeodontidae, Turiniidae
Subtaxa: Larolepis Thelodus Turinia
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (1 collection), Bolivia (1), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (3)
• Silurian of Canada (1: New Brunswick), China (1), Estonia (15), Lithuania (2), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (4), Sweden (6), the United Kingdom (82)
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Ontario)
Total: 121 collections including 222 occurrences