†family Osteolepididae Cope 1887 (lobe-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Osteolepidida - Osteolepididae

NOT Cope 1889

Synonyms: Glyptodipterini Huxley 1861, Glyptopomidae Goodrich 1909, Glyptopominae Goodrich 1909

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, van der Laan 2019 and Young and Schultze 2005

Sister taxa: Osteolepidiformes, Osteolepiformes

Subtaxa: Glyptopomus Greiserolepis Megistolepis Muranjilepis Osteolepidinae Osteolepis Platygnathus Shirolepis

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Type: Osteolepis

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of the Russian Federation (1 collection)

• Givetian of the United Kingdom (1)

• Devonian of Australia (2), Belarus (4), Estonia (4), Germany (3), Iran (1), Latvia (3), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (15), United States (6: Colorado, Iowa, Pennsylvania)

Total: 42 collections each including a single occurrence

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