†family Asterolepididae Traquair 1888 (armour-plated fish)

Placodermi - Antiarchiformes - Asterolepididae

Alternative spelling: Asterolepidae

Synonym: Pterichthyidae

Parent taxon: Euantiarcha according to J. S. Nelson et al. 2016

See also Denison 1975, Denison 1978, Hay 1902, Moloshnikov 2007 and Woodward 1891

Sister taxa: Bothriolepididae, Gerdalepididae, Microbrachiidae

Subtaxa: Asterolepis Byssacanthus Gerdalepis Pterichthyodes Pterichthys Remigolepis Stegolepis

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of Germany (1 collection)

• Mississippian of the United Kingdom (1)

• Devonian of Belarus (4), Canada (2: Nunavut), Colombia (1), Estonia (8), Latvia (6), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (4)

Total: 28 collections including 42 occurrences

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