†family Coelolepidae Pander 1856 (vertebrate)

Thelodonti - Thelodontiformes - Coelolepidae

Alternative spelling: Coelolepididae

Parent taxon: Thelodontida according to T. Marss and V. Karatajute-Talimaa 2002

See also Donoghue and Smith 2001 and Sansom and Elliott 2002

Sister taxa: Archipelepididae, Australolepis, Eestilepididae, Kawalepsis, Skamolepis, Talivaliidae, Thelodontidae, Thelodonta, Palaeodontidae, Turiniidae

Subtaxa: Larolepis Thelodus Turinia

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Devonian of Antarctica (3 collections), Australia (6), Bolivia (1), China (2), France (1), Iran (1), Norway (4), the Russian Federation (3), Spain (1), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (5)

• Silurian of Canada (3: New Brunswick, Nunavut), China (1), Estonia (33), Latvia (3), Lithuania (2), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (7), Sweden (6), the United Kingdom (106)

• Ordovician of Canada (1: Ontario)

Total: 195 collections including 335 occurrences

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