Placodermi - Asterolepidiformes - Asterolepididae
Alternative spelling: Asterolepidae
Synonym: Pterichthyidae
Parent taxon: Asterolepidiformes according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Denison 1975, Denison 1978, Hay 1902, Moloshnikov 2007, Nelson et al. 2016 and Woodward 1891
Sister taxa: Asperaspididae, Lepadolepididae, Pambulaspidae, Remigolepididae
Subtaxa: Asterolepis Stegolepis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Germany (1 collection)
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)
• Devonian of Belarus (5), Canada (3: Nunavut), China (1), Colombia (1), Estonia (5), Greenland (1), Kazakhstan (3), Latvia (7), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (10), United States (2: Nevada, New York)
Total: 45 collections including 51 occurrences