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†family Tristichopteridae Cope 1887 (lobe-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Osteolepiformes - Tristichopteridae

NOT 1889 as it is cited 1887

Parent taxon: Osteolepiformes according to E. B. Daeschler and J. P. Downs 2018

See also Clement et al. 2009, Cope 1887, Johanson and Ahlberg 2001, Nelson et al. 2016, Schultze and Reed 2012 and Young et al. 2013

Sister taxa: Cryptolepis, Cyclolepidoidei, Lamprotolepididae, Litoptychus, Lohsania, Mahalalepis, Megalichthyidae, Megapomus, Osteolepidoidei, Platyethmoidia, Sengoerichthys, Thysanolepis, Viluichthys, Vorobjevaia

Subtaxa: Bruehnopteron Eusthenodon Eusthenopteron Hyneria Jarvikina Mandageriinae Platycephalichthys Tristichopterus

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Devonian of Antarctica (5 collections), Australia (3), Belgium (1), Canada (2: Nunavut, Quebec), Colombia (1), Greenland (1), Latvia (4), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (5), South Africa (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (4: Nevada, Pennsylvania)

Total: 32 collections including 34 occurrences

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