†family Pycnosteroididae Patterson 1964 (ray-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Teleosteomorpha - Pycnosteroididae
Full reference: C. Patterson. 1964. A review of Mesozoic acanthopterygian fishes, with special reference to those of the English Chalk. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (Series B) 247(739):213-482
Parent taxon: Lampripterygii according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Murray and Wilson 2014 and Patterson 1964
Sister taxa: Aipichthyidae, Aipichthyoididae, Lampriformes, Pharmacichthyidae
Subtaxa: Magrebichthys Pycnosteroides
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution: