†family Gonatodidae Gardiner 1967 (ray-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Elonichthyiformes - Gonatodidae
Full reference: B. G. Gardiner. 1967. Further notes on Palaeoniscoid fishes with a classification of the Chondrostei. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 14(5):143-206
Parent taxon: Elonichthyiformes according to A. S. Bakaev et al. 2020
See also Gardiner 1967 and Minikh and Minikh 2009
Sister taxa: Acrolepidae, Acrolepididae, Eigiliidae, Elonichthyidae, Samarichthys, Varialepididae
Subtaxa: Novogonatodus Plotnikovichthys Pseudogonatodus Usolia
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Permian of the Russian Federation (5 collections)
• Carboniferous of Australia (1), the United Kingdom (15)
Total: 21 collections including 23 occurrences