Osteichthyes - Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae

Full reference: G.F. Fisher von Waldheim. 1850. Ommatolampes et Trachelacanthus, genera piscium fossilum nova, in literis Eduardo ab Eichwald datis, descripta. 1-8

Parent taxon: Palaeoniscidae according to A. S. Woodward 1891

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Alvinichthys, Ambodipia, Apateolepis, Canobius, Carboveles, Cryphiolepis, Cycloptychius, Dicellopyge, Ferganiscus, Ganolepis, Gonatodus, Grygorichthys, Guizhouniscus, Gyrolepis, Holurus, Isodus, Isodus leptognathus, Koinichthys, Myriolepis, Nematoptychius, Oxygnathus, Palaeoniscum, Palaeoniscus, Paraeurynotus, Rhadinoniscus, Semionotus brodei, Sixtelia, Strepheoschema, Suchonichthys, Tegeolepis, Turfania, Turseodus, Wayaobulepis

Subtaxa: Trachelacanthus stschurovskii

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Kaiserling Expedition locality (Permian of Russian Federation)

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