Osteichthyes - Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Alternative spelling: Paleoniscidae
Parent taxon: Palaeoniscoidei according to J. S. Nelson 2006
See also Beltan 1972, Cope 1887, Dunkle 1946, Hay 1902, Heckert 2004, Heintz 1934, Irmis 2005, Jordan 1963, Lehman 1952, Patterson 1982, Schaeffer 1967, Sytchevskaya 1999, Uyeno 1978, Woodward 1891 and Woodward 1916
Sister taxa: Amblypteridae, Birgeriidae, Dicellopygidae, Lawrenciella, Muensterichthys, Pygopteridae, Rhabdolepidae, Rhadinichthyidae, Zhejiangichthys
Subtaxa: Alvinichthys Ambodipia Apateolepis Canobius Carboveles Cryphiolepis Cycloptychius Dicellopyge Ferganiscus Ganolepis Gonatodus Grygorichthys Guizhouniscus Gyrolepis Holurus Isodus Isodus leptognathus Koinichthys Myriolepis Nematoptychius Oxygnathus Palaeoniscum Palaeoniscus Paraeurynotus Rhadinoniscus Semionotus brodei Sixtelia Strepheoschema Suchonichthys Tegeolepis Trachelacanthus Turfania Turseodus Wayaobulepis
Type: Palaeoniscum
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (2: Colorado, New Jersey)
• Triassic of Argentina (1), Australia (2), Belgium (4), China (4), France (17), Germany (12), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Luxembourg (1), Madagascar (1), the Netherlands (2), Pakistan (1), Poland (3), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (3), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Switzerland (3), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (18), United States (36: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah)
• Tatarian of the Russian Federation (1)
• Permian of Brazil (1), China (3), the Czech Republic (3), Germany (14), Greenland (5), the Russian Federation (22), South Africa (6), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (17), United States (2: Texas, Utah)
• Carboniferous of Belarus (4), Belgium (1), Canada (9: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia), Ireland (1), the Russian Federation (6), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (57), United States (9: Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Scotland)
• Devonian to Carboniferous of Turkey (1)
• Devonian of Canada (1: Ontario), the Russian Federation (1), United States (4: Ohio)
Total: 296 collections including 382 occurrences