Coelacanthimorpha - Coelacanthiformes - Mawsoniidae
Parent taxon: Latimeroidei according to J. Graf 2012
See also Dutel et al. 2012, Forey 1998, Nelson et al. 2016, Schultze 2004 and Yabumoto 2007
Sister taxa: Dipluridae, Palaeoctopus pelagicus
Subtaxa: Axelrodichthys Changxingia Chinlea Garnbergia Graulia Lualabaea Mawsonia Parnaibaia Rhipis Trachymetopon
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (4 collections), Brazil (10), Cameroon (1), Egypt (8), France (7), Libya (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (3), Niger (1), Tunisia (3)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Morocco (1), Thailand (1)
• Jurassic of Brazil (8), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Germany (3), Morocco (3), Uruguay (4)
• Triassic of Brazil (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), France (1), Germany (1), United States (11: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Utah)
• Permian of China (1)
Total: 77 collections including 81 occurrences