Osteichthyes - Recumbirostra - Molgophidae
Synonym: Cocytinidae Cope 1875
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1875. Check-list of North American Batrachia and Reptilia; with a systematic list of the higher groups, and an essay on geographical distribution. Based on the specimens contained in the U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 1:1-109
Parent taxon: Recumbirostra according to A. Mann et al. 2019
See also Brough and Brough 1967, Carroll et al. 1998, Cope 1875, Hay 1902, Kuhn 1946, Pardo and Anderson 2016 and Wellstead 1991
Sister taxa: Aletrimyti, Brachystelechidae, Dvellecanus, Gymnarthridae, Huskerpeton, Joermungandr, Lysorophia, Ostodolepidae, Pantylidae, Proxilodon, Steenerpeton
Subtaxa: Brachydectes Infernovenator Molgophis
Type: Molgophis
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Leonard of United States (2: Oklahoma, Texas collections)
• Wolfcamp of United States (6: Kansas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia)
• Permian of United States (25: Kansas, Maryland, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia)
• Virgilian of United States (1: West Virginia)
• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (1: New Mexico)
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (2), United States (11: Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia)
Total: 48 collections including 58 occurrences