Family Osteoglossidae Bonaparte 1832 (arowana)

Actinopteri - Osteoglossiformes - Osteoglossidae

Parent taxon: Osteoglossiformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013

See also Bogan et al. 2010, Casier 1966, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Ebersole et al. 2019, Frizzell and Dante 1965, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Khajuria and Prasad 1998, Li et al. 1997, Lim 1996, Nelson et al. 2016, Newbrey and Bozek 2000, Weems 1999 and Woodward 1901

Sister taxa: Arapaimidae, Foreyichthyidae, Gymnarchidae, Lopadichthys, Lycopteridae, Monopteros, Mormyridae, Notopteridae, Opsithrissops, Osteoglossoidei, Saurocephalidae, Tongxinichthys, Wakinoichthiidae, Wilsonichthys, Xixiaichthys

Subtaxa: Dapedoglossus Heterodontinae Heterotidinae Heterotis Osteoglossidarum Osteoglossinae Scleropages

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Niger (2 collections)

• Pliocene of Kenya (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (1)

• Miocene of Australia (1), Brazil (1), Kenya (1)

• Oligocene of Kenya (1), Oman (1), United States (2: South Carolina)

• Eocene of Mali (1), Pakistan (2), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (13: Alabama, Louisiana, Maryland , Mississippi, Virginia, Wyoming)

• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1), Mali (1)

• Paleocene of Bolivia (1), Greenland (1), India (1), Mexico (1), Niger (1)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Bolivia (1), India (1)

• Cretaceous of Bolivia (1), Brazil (1), Canada (1: Saskatchewan), France (1), India (8), Japan (1), Mali (1), Spain (1), Sudan (1)

Total: 55 collections including 57 occurrences

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