Family Ceratodontidae Gill 1872 (lungfish)

Osteichthyes - Dipnoi - Ceratodontidae

Parent taxon: Dipnoi according to K. M. Panzeri 2023

See also Agnolin et al. 2018, Apesteguia et al. 2007, Apesteguía et al. 2012, Churcher and De Iuliis 2001, Churcher et al. 2006, Cione and Gouiric-Cavalli 2012, Hay 1902, Heckert 2004, Kirkland 1987, Louys and Price 2015, Martin 1982, Martinelli and Forasiepi 2004, Nelson et al. 2016, Panzeri et al. 2020, Panzeri et al. 2022, Previtera and González Riga 2008, Schultze 1993, Schultze 2004 and Shimada and Kirkland 2011

Sister taxa: Adelargo, Amadeodipterus, Apatorhynchus, Ballagadus, Cathlorhynchus, Celsiodon, Ceratodonti, Ceratodontoidei, Chirodipteroidea, Coccovedus, Ctenodontiformes, Ctenodontoidei, Ctenodus, Devonesteus, Devonosteus, Diabolepidiformes, Dipnoiformes, Dipnorhynchiformes, Dipnorhynchina, Dipnorhynchoidei, Dipteri, Dipterida, Dipteriformes, Dipteroidei, Dongshanodus, Ferganoceratodus, Gnathorhizidae, Gosfordia, Harajicadipterus, Holodipterida, Jessenia, Limanichthys, Megapleuron, Melanognathus, Nielsenia, Occludus, Oervigia, Persephonichthys, Pinnalongus, Proceratodus, Protoceratodontidae, Protopteri, Ptychoceratodontidae, Rhinodipteridae, Sagenodontidae, Sinodipterus, Sirenoidei, Speonesydrionidae, Speonesydrionina, Speonysedrion, Synthetodus, Tarachomylax, Uranolophina, Uronemoidei, Westollrhynchus, Xylognathus

Subtaxa: Ariguna Atlantoceratodus Ceratodontinae Ceratodus Chaoceratodus Epiceratodus Lupaceradotus Metaceratodus Microceratodus Rinconodus Tellerodus

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of Australia (1 collection)

• Eocene of Argentina (1)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Peru (1)

• Paleocene of Niger (1), Saudi Arabia (1)

• Cretaceous of Algeria (6), Argentina (22), Australia (6), Bolivia (1), Brazil (1), Egypt (4), Madagascar (1), Mali (2), Morocco (3), Niger (12), Spain (1), Sudan (2), Tanzania (2), United States (19: Maryland, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)

• Jurassic of Brazil (1), China (2), Ethiopia (1), Mongolia (1), Niger (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (21: Colorado, Oklahoma, Wyoming), Uruguay (1)

• Triassic of Angola (1), Antarctica (1), Australia (3), France (3), Germany (12), Greenland (1), India (3), Luxembourg (1), Madagascar (1), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (6), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Switzerland (4), the United Kingdom (9), United States (5: Arizona, Nevada, Texas)

Total: 176 collections including 205 occurrences

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