Subfamily Osteoglossinae Nelson 1968 (arowana)
Actinopteri - Osteoglossiformes - Osteoglossidae
Parent taxon: Osteoglossidae according to G.-q. Lim 1996
See also Li et al. 1997 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Dapedoglossus, Heterodontinae, Heterotidinae, Heterotis, Osteoglossidarum, Scleropages
Subtaxa: Brychaetus Cretophareodus Phareodus Singida Taverneichthys
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Mali (1 collection), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (9: Louisiana, Maryland , Mississippi, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Mali (1)
• Paleocene of Bolivia (1), India (1), Mexico (1), Niger (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Bolivia (1)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), India (6), Mali (1)
Total: 26 collections each including a single occurrence