Osteichthyes - Saurichthyiformes
Parent taxon: Chondrostei according to F. X. Wu et al. 2013
See also Cartanyà 1999, Chrzastek 2008, Long 2011, Mutter et al. 2008, Nelson et al. 2016 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acipenseriformes, Asterodontidae, Cheirolepiformes, Chondrosteiformes, Dictyopygidae, Diphyodontidae, Guidayichthyiformes, Luganoiiformes, Neochallaia, Phanerorhynchiformes, Pholidopleuriformes, Polyodonti, Ptycholepiformes, Sturii
Subtaxa: Saurichthyidae Yelangichthyidae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Canada (3: Alberta), France (1), Germany (20), the United Kingdom (10)
• Triassic of Australia (4), Austria (5), Belgium (5), Canada (6: Alberta, British Columbia), China (8), France (14), Germany (10), Greenland (3), Hungary (2), India (4), Israel (1), Italy (14), Kyrgyzstan (2), Luxembourg (1), Madagascar (6), Nepal (1), the Netherlands (2), Norway (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (4), Saudi Arabia (3), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (3), South Africa (1), Spain (12), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (16), Switzerland (39), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (5), United States (5: Arizona, Idaho, Nevada)
• Permian of China (1), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 220 collections including 274 occurrences