Osteichthyes - Elonichthyiformes - Elonichthyidae
Parent taxon: Elonichthyidae according to A. S. Bakaev et al. 2020
See also Aldinger 1937, Eastman 1903, Gardiner 1960, Gardiner 1962, Hay 1902, Heintz 1934, Schindler 2018, Sepkoski 2002 and Woodward 1891
Sister taxa: Acrolepis addamsi, Alilepis, Santosichthys
Subtaxa: Elonichthys addamsi Elonichthys armatus Elonichthys binneyi Elonichthys brownii Elonichthys caudalis Elonichthys contortus Elonichthys davidi Elonichthys denticulatus Elonichthys disjunctus Elonichthys egertoni Elonichthys elegans Elonichthys ellsi Elonichthys fritschi Elonichthys germari Elonichthys gondwanus Elonichthys hypsilepis Elonichthys insolitus Elonichthys krejcii Elonichthys macropercularis Elonichthys multistriatus Elonichthys natalis Elonichthys oblongus Elonichthys ortholepis Elonichthys peltigerus Elonichthys perpennatus Elonichthys portlocki Elonichthys pulcherrimus Elonichthys punctatus Elonichthys remotus Elonichthys robisoni Elonichthys semilineatus Elonichthys semistriatus Elonichthys serratus Elonichthys striatulus Elonichthys sweeti Elonichthys whaitsi Elonichthys wolffi
Type: Elonichthys germari
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of Australia (1 collection)
• Permian of Australia (1), Brazil (2), the Czech Republic (3), Germany (1), Greenland (2), Lithuania (1), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (14), South Africa (1), Uruguay (1)
• Namurian of France (1)
• Carboniferous to Permian of South Africa (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (1), Belarus (4), Belgium (2), Canada (8: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia), the Czech Republic (47), France (1), Germany (4), Namibia (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (4), the United Kingdom (86), United States (12: Illinois, New Mexico, Scotland)
• Devonian of Belarus (1), Belgium (1)
Total: 203 collections including 237 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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