†family Osteolepididae Cope 1887 (lobe-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Osteolepidida - Osteolepididae

NOT Cope 1889

Synonym: Glyptodipterini Huxley 1861

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1887. Zittel's Manual of Palaeontology. The American Naturalist 21(11):1014-1019

Parent taxon: Osteolepidida according to Otto 1999

See also Borgen and Nakrem 2016, Chang and Zhu 1993, Cope 1887, Huxley 1861, Lebedev 1995, Nelson et al. 2016 and Young and Schultze 2005

Sister taxon: Osteolepidiformes

Subtaxa: Glyptolaemus Glyptopominae Muranjilepis Osteolepidinae Platygnathus

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of the Russian Federation (1 collection)

• Devonian of Australia (2), Belarus (4), Estonia (4), Germany (3), Latvia (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (3: Iowa, Pennsylvania)

Total: 20 collections each including a single occurrence

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