†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
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Germany (1 collection)
• Carboniferous 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