Osteichthyes - Elonichthyiformes - Acrolepididae
Parent taxon: Elonichthyiformes according to A. S. Bakaev et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Acrolepidae, Eigiliidae, Elonichthyidae, Gonatodidae, Samarichthys, Varialepididae
Subtaxa: Acrolepis Kazanichthys
Type: Acrolepis
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of Australia (2 collections), Canada (1: Alberta), France (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3)
• Tatarian of the Russian Federation (2)
• Permian of Brazil (1), Germany (8), the Russian Federation (28), the United Kingdom (6), United States (2: Oklahoma, South Dakota)
• Chokierian of Belgium (1)
• Carboniferous of Belgium (1), Canada (4: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia), the Czech Republic (7), Greenland (1), Ireland (1), South Africa (1), the United Kingdom (15)
• Devonian of the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 86 collections including 94 occurrences