Chondrichthyes - Climatiiformes
Parent taxon: Acanthodii according to J. S. Nelson et al. 2016
See also Dineley and Metcalf 1999, Long 2011 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acanthodi, Acanthodida, Acanthodiformes, Antarctonchus, Archaeacanthus, Byssacanthoides, Campylodus, Climatiida, Diplacanthi, Diplacanthiformes, Eupleurogmus, Euthacanthidae, Gemuendolepis, Haplacanthus, Homacanthus, Ischnacanthida, Ischnacanthiformes, Latviacanthus, Lupopsyroides, Lupopsyrus, Machaeracanthidae, Monopleurodus, Neoasiacanthus, Nodacosta, Nodonchus, Onchus, Parexus, Paucicanthus, Pinnacanthus, Promesacanthus, Ptychodictyon, Seretolepis, Striacanthus, Tetanopsyrus, Vesperaliidae, Yealepis
Subtaxa: Brochoadmonidae Cassidiceps Climatiidae Culmacanthidae Gyracanthidae Hanilepis Kathemacanthus Pruemolepis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Australia (2 collections), Belgium (1), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), the United Kingdom (5), United States (1: West Virginia)
• Devonian of Antarctica (2), Australia (3), Belarus (1), Bolivia (1), Canada (4: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia), China (1), Colombia (1), Estonia (3), France (1), Germany (1), Iran (2), Latvia (2), New Zealand (1), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (10), South Africa (2), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (9), United States (11: Michigan, Nevada, Utah)
• Silurian of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), China (4), Estonia (12), Greenland (1), Lithuania (6), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 98 collections including 139 occurrences