Osteichthyes - Palaeonisciformes
Parent taxon: Palaeonisciformes according to J. S. Nelson 2006
See also Daly 1973, Patterson 1982 and Schaeffer 1967
Sister taxa: Agecephalichthys, Amblypterina, Arratiaichthys, Atherstoniidae, Blanzychthys, Boreolepidae, Borichthys, Brachypareion, Brazilichthyidae, Browneichthys, Burbonella, Caelatichthys, Canobiidae, Coccolepidae, Cornuboniscus, Cosmolepis, Cosmoptychiidae, Daedalichthys, Daqingshaniscus, Decazella, Dialipina, Dorsolepis, Dorypteroidei, Drydenius, Dwykiidae, Fukangichthys, Gardinerichthys, Gyrolepidoides, Holuridae, Huanghelepis, Igornella, Igornichthyidae, Illiniichthys, Kentuckia, Korutichthys, Letovichthys, Luederia, Mansfieldiscus, Neuburgella, Orvikuina, Osorioichthys, Palaeothrissum, Paradrydenius, Paragonatodus, Phanerorhynchidae, Platysomoidei, Plesiococcolepis, Protamblyptera, Psilichthys, Redfieldioidei, Rhabdolepis, Sakamenichthys, Scanilepididae, Sceletophoridae, Songanella, Tanaocrossus, Tienshaniscus, Trissolepididae, Urosthenes, Westollia, Zaxilepis, Zhongweilepis
Subtaxa: Amblypteridae Birgeriidae Dicellopygidae Lawrenciella Muensterichthys Palaeoniscidae Pygopteridae Rhabdolepidae Rhadinichthyidae Zhejiangichthys
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (2: Colorado, New Jersey)
• Triassic of Argentina (1), Australia (2), Austria (2), Belgium (5), Bolivia (1), Canada (40: British Columbia), China (9), France (25), Germany (19), Greenland (11), India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Luxembourg (1), Madagascar (8), the Netherlands (2), Norway (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (1), South Africa (3), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (14), Switzerland (5), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (25), United States (41: Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah)
• Tatarian of the Russian Federation (1)
• Permian of Brazil (2), China (7), the Czech Republic (3), France (1), Germany (17), Greenland (6), the Russian Federation (24), South Africa (6), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (17), United States (8: Oklahoma, Texas, Utah), Uruguay (1)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (1), Belarus (6), Belgium (3), Canada (13: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia), the Czech Republic (13), France (2), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (2), Namibia (1), the Russian Federation (6), South Africa (2), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (111), United States (27: Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Scotland)
• Devonian to Carboniferous of Turkey (1)
• Devonian of Belarus (2), Canada (1: Ontario), the Russian Federation (1), United States (4: Ohio)
Total: 532 collections including 806 occurrences