Family Neoceratodontidae Miles 1977 (Australian lungfish)

Osteichthyes - Ceratodontiformes - Neoceratodontidae

Full reference: R. S. Miles. 1977. Dipnoan (lungfish) skulls and the relationships of the group: a study based on new species from the Devonian of Australia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 61:1-328

Parent taxon: Ceratodontiformes according to J. S. Nelson et al. 2016

See also Apesteguia et al. 2007, Betancur et al. 2013, Louys and Price 2015, Martin 1982, Miles 1977, Schultze 1993 and Schultze 2004

Sister taxa: Ameghinoceratodus, Arganodontidae, Asiatoceratodontidae, Ceratodontoidea, Lepidosirenoidei, Potamoceratodus

Subtaxa: Asiatoceratodus Mioceratodus Neoceratodus

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Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Australia (3 collections)

• Cretaceous of Algeria (8), Australia (3), Brazil (3), Egypt (1), Morocco (2), Niger (3), Tunisia (2)

• Jurassic of Ethiopia (2), Uruguay (2)

Total: 29 collections including 45 occurrences

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