Osteichthyes - Coelacanthiformes - Mawsoniidae
Parent taxon: Latimerioidei according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Dutel et al. 2012, Forey 1998, Graf 2012, Nelson et al. 2016, Schultze 2004 and Yabumoto 2007
Sister taxa: Dipluridae, Latimeriidae, Palaeoctopus pelagicus
Subtaxa: Axelrodichthys Changxingia Chinlea Dipleurinae Diplurus Garnbergia Graulia Lualabaea Mawsonia Parnaibaia Rhipis Trachymetopon
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (4 collections), Brazil (10), Cameroon (1), Egypt (8), France (7), Libya (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (3), Niger (1), Tunisia (3)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Morocco (1), Thailand (1)
• Jurassic of Brazil (8), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Germany (3), Morocco (3), United States (6: Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia), Uruguay (4)
• Triassic of Brazil (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), France (1), Germany (1), United States (25: Arizona, Colorado, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia)
• Permian of China (1)
Total: 97 collections including 103 occurrences