Suborder Lepidosirenoidei (Australian lungfish)

Osteichthyes - Ceratodontiformes

Parent taxon: Ceratodontiformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013

Sister taxa: Ameghinoceratodus, Ceratodontoidea, Potamoceratodus

Subtaxa: Lepidosirenidae Protopteridae

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Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (5 collections), Kenya (15)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Kenya (1)

• Pliocene of Egypt (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (4), Malawi (1), Tanzania (3), Uganda (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (1), Tanzania (2), Uganda (4)

• Miocene of Brazil (1), Colombia (23), Kenya (5), Peru (2), Uganda (2)

• Oligocene of Japan (1), Kenya (1), Oman (1), Peru (5)

• Eocene of Algeria (2), Argentina (1), Libya (4), Mali (1), Peru (2)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Peru (2)

• Paleocene of Bolivia (1)

• Cretaceous of Bolivia (1), Egypt (2), Libya (1), Morocco (1), Niger (1), Sudan (3)

Total: 103 collections including 105 occurrences

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