†family Bothriolepididae Cope 1886 (armour-plated fish)
Placodermi - Antiarchiformes - Bothriolepididae
Parent taxon: Euantiarcha according to J. S. Nelson et al. 2016
See also Denison 1975 and Lukševičs 2001
Sister taxa: Asterolepididae, Gerdalepididae, Microbrachiidae
Subtaxa: Bothriolepis Grossilepis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Belarus (1 collection), Canada (1: Quebec), China (2), Colombia (1), Latvia (1), the Russian Federation (5), South Africa (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: Colorado, Pennsylvania, Virginia)
Total: 19 collections including 21 occurrences