Superfamily Lepisosteoidea (gar)

Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes

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

Sister taxa: Araripelepidotes, Pliodetes

Subtaxa: Lepisosteidae Obaichthyidae

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

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)

• Clarkforkian of United States (1: Wyoming)

• Cf3 of United States (1: Wyoming)

• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1)

• Paleocene of Bolivia (1), Canada (4: Alberta, Saskatchewan), India (1), Spain (1), United States (31: 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 (33), Austria (2), Bolivia (1), Brazil (7), 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 (1), 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: 630 collections including 673 occurrences

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