Osteichthyes - Platysomiformes
Alternative spelling: Platysomoidei
Full reference: H. Aldinger. 1937. Permische ganoidfische aus Ostgrönland. Meddelelser om Grønland 102(3):1-392
Parent taxon: Actinopterygii according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Aldinger 1937, Bakaev et al. 2020, Nelson 2006 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Platysomidae
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of United States (1: Connecticut collection)
• Triassic of Australia (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Greenland (1), Madagascar (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), United States (1: Virginia)
• Tatarian of the Russian Federation (6)
• Permian of Australia (1), Bolivia (1), Brazil (1), China (1), Czechia (1), Germany (9), Greenland (1), Lithuania (1), the Russian Federation (42), South Africa (2), the United Kingdom (6), United States (14: Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), China (1), South Africa (4), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (36), United States (11: Illinois, Kansas, Montana, New Mexico)
Total: 151 collections including 209 occurrences