†unranked clade Elpistostegalia Camp and Alison 1961
Osteichthyes - Elpistostegalia
Parent taxon: Tetrapodomorpha according to T. Stewart et al. 2022
See also Daeschler et al. 2006, Lebedev and Clément 2019, Long 2011 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Cricodus, Densignathus, Elginerpetidae, Elginerpetontidae, Eotetrapodiformes, Gogonasus, Harajicadectes, Hynerpeton, Ichthyostegidae, Jakubsonia, Kenichthys, Livoniana, Metaxygnathus, Owensia, Sinostega, Spodichthys, Tetrapoda, Tulerpetidae, Tungsenia, Ventastega
Subtaxa: Elpistostegaliformes Qikiqtania Rubrognathus
Distribution:
• Devonian of Canada (1: Nunavut collection), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence