Placodermi - Asterolepidiformes
Parent taxon: Antiarchi according to R. van der Laan 2019
Sister taxa: Bothriolepidiformes, Liujiangolepidae, Macrodontophion, Macropetalichthyiformes, Minicranidae, Phymolepis, Pterichthyodid, Ptyctodontiformes, Silurolepidae, Sinolepiformes, Xichonolepis, Yunnanolepidiformes, Zhanjilepis, Walterilepis, Hyrcanaspis, Jiangxilepididae, Bothriolepoidei, Yunnanolepidoidei
Subtaxa: Asperaspididae Asterolepididae Lepadolepididae Pambulaspidae Remigolepididae
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Germany (1 collection)
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)
• Devonian of Australia (4), Belarus (5), Belgium (1), Canada (3: Nunavut), China (5), Colombia (1), Estonia (5), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Kazakhstan (3), Kyrgyzstan (1), Latvia (7), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (7), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (11), United States (2: Nevada, New York)
Total: 61 collections including 72 occurrences