Order Polypteriformes

Cladistia - Polypteriformes

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

See also Long 2011, Meyer and Zardoya 2003, Nelson 2006 and Nelson et al. 2016

Sister taxon: Calamoichthyidae

Subtaxa: Pollia Polypteridae

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Distribution:

• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (2 collections), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (24), Niger (2), Sudan (2)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Kenya (1)

• Pliocene of Egypt (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (5)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (3)

• Miocene of Chad (2), Kenya (4), Tunisia (2)

• Oligocene of Kenya (1)

• Eocene of Algeria (2), Libya (3)

• Cretaceous of Algeria (2), Bolivia (1), Egypt (3), Morocco (2), Sudan (1)

Total: 65 collections each including a single occurrence

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