†family Pholidopleuridae Nielsen 1949 (ray-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Pholidopleuriformes - Pholidopleuridae
Parent taxon: Pholidopleuriformes according to E. K. Sytchevskaya 1999
See also Beltan 1980, Bürgin 1992 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxon: Gracilignathichthys
Subtaxa: Arctosomus Australosomus Pholidopleurus
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Canada (1: British Columbia collection), Greenland (7), Italy (8), Madagascar (6), the Russian Federation (1), Switzerland (5), United States (3: Arizona)
• Permian of Greenland (1)
Total: 32 collections including 39 occurrences