Osteichthyes - Palaeonisciformes - Rhadinichthyidae
Parent taxon: Palaeoniscoidei according to J. S. Nelson 2006
See also Lowney 1980 and Lund and Poplin 1997
Sister taxa: Amblypteridae, Birgeriidae, Dicellopygidae, Lawrenciella, Muensterichthys, Palaeoniscidae, Pygopteridae, Rhabdolepidae, Zhejiangichthys
Subtaxa: Akanichthys Cyranorhis Eurylepidoides Mentzichthys Pteronisculus Rhadinichthys Wendyichthys
Type: Rhadinichthys
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Canada (2: British Columbia collections), China (3), Greenland (10), Madagascar (6), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (1: Nevada)
• Permian of the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Texas), Uruguay (1)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (1), Belarus (3), Belgium (1), Canada (6: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia), France (2), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (2), Namibia (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (2), the United Kingdom (83), United States (15: Indiana, Montana)
• Devonian of Belarus (2)
Total: 147 collections including 225 occurrences