Osteichthyes - Osteolepidiformes - Tristichopteridae

Full reference: Z. Johanson and P. E. Ahlberg. 1997. A new tristichopterid (Osteolepiformes: Sarcopterygii) from the Mandagery Sandstone (Late Devonian, Famennian) near Canowindra, NSW, Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 88:39-68

Parent taxon: Tristichopteridae according to R. van der Laan 2019

See also Borgen and Nakrem 2016, Johanson and Ahlberg 1997 and Young et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Bruehnopteron, Eustenopteron, Eusthenodon, Hyneria, Jarvikina, Mandageriinae, Notorhizodon, Platycephalichthyinae, Platycephalichthys, Tristichopterus, Hongkongichthys, Langlieria, Marsdenichthys, Heddleichthys

Subtaxa: Mandageria fairfaxi

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Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Canowindra (Devonian of Australia)

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