Coelacanthimorpha - Coelacanthiformes
Alternative spelling: Latimerioidei
Parent taxon: Coelacanthiformes according to J. Graf 2012
See also Clement 2005, Clement 2006, Dutel et al. 2012, Forey 1998, Schultze 2004 and Yabumoto 2007
Sister taxa: Canningius, Coelacanthidae, Coelacanthiidae, Coelacanthoidei, Coelacanthopsis, Cualabaea, Diplocercidae, Dobrogeria, Hadronectoridae, Holoptychus, Latimeriidae, Lochmocercus, Luopingcoelacanthus, Miguashaiidae, Rhabdodermatidae, Sinocoelacanthus, Whiteiidae, Yunnancoelacanthus
Subtaxa: Dipluridae Mawsoniidae Palaeoctopus pelagicus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (4 collections), Brazil (8), Egypt (8), France (7), Libya (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (2), Morocco (3), Niger (1), Tunisia (3), United States (1: Texas)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Morocco (1), Thailand (1)
• Jurassic of Brazil (8), Germany (3), Morocco (3), United States (6: Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia), Uruguay (4)
• Triassic of Brazil (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Germany (1), United States (24: Arizona, Colorado, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia)
• Permian of China (1)
Total: 93 collections including 96 occurrences