†family Chondrosteidae Egerton 1858 (ray-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Acipenseriformes - Chondrosteidae
Parent taxon: Chondrosteoidei according to L. Grande and W. E. Bemis 1996
See also Grande and Hilton 2006, Jordan 1963 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Chondrosteus Gyrosteus Strongylosteus
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Germany (1), the United Kingdom (9)
Total: 11 collections including 15 occurrences