†order Osteolepiformes Berg 1937 (lobe-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Osteolepiformes
Parent taxon: Osteolepidida according to J. S. Nelson et al. 2016
See also Chang and Zhu 1993, Clement et al. 2009, Daeschler and Downs 2018, Dineley and Metcalf 1999 and Young et al. 1992
Sister taxa: Osteolepididae, Osteolepidiformes
Subtaxa: Cryptolepis Litoptychus Lohsania Mahalalepis Megalichthyidae Megapomus Platyethmoidia Sengoerichthys Vorobjevaia
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of United States (1: Pennsylvania collection)
• Permian of United States (4: Oklahoma, Utah)
• Carboniferous of Australia (1), Belarus (2)
• Devonian of Antarctica (4), Colombia (1), Latvia (2), the Russian Federation (3), South Africa (1), United States (6: Colorado, Pennsylvania)
Total: 25 collections including 26 occurrences