Osteichthyes - Coelacanthiformes
Alternative spelling: Latimeroidei
Parent taxon: Coelacanthiformes according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Clement 2005, Clement 2006, Dutel et al. 2012, Forey 1998, Graf 2012, Schultze 2004 and Yabumoto 2007
Sister taxa: Canningius, Coelacanthidae, Coelacanthiidae, Coelacanthoidei, Coelacanthopsis, Cualabaea, Dobrogeria, Holoptychus, Lochmocercus, Luopingcoelacanthus, Sinocoelacanthus, Whiteiidae, Yunnancoelacanthus
Subtaxa: Dipluridae Latimeriidae Mawsoniidae Palaeoctopus pelagicus
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (4 collections), Brazil (10), Cameroon (1), Egypt (8), France (7), Lebanon (1), Libya (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (2), Morocco (3), Niger (1), Spain (2), Tunisia (3), the United Kingdom (5), United States (6: Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, New Jersey, Texas)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Morocco (1), Thailand (1)
• Jurassic of Brazil (8), the Congo-Kinshasa (3), France (4), Germany (6), India (3), Morocco (3), Switzerland (1), Türkiye (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (6: Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia), Uruguay (4)
• Triassic of Brazil (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), France (1), Germany (1), Italy (4), the Russian Federation (1), Switzerland (24), United States (27: Arizona, Colorado, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia)
• Permian of China (1)
Total: 163 collections including 178 occurrences