Osteichthyes - Ceratodontiformes - Lepidosirenidae
Full reference: R. A. Stirton. 1953. Vertebrate paleontology and continental stratigraphy in Colombia. Geological Society of America Bulletin 64:603-622
Parent taxon: Lepidosirenoidei according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Apesteguia et al. 2007, Bondesio and Pascual 1977, Churcher and De Iuliis 2001, Daly 1973, Jordan 1963, Martin 1982, Miles 1977, Nelson et al. 2016, Savage 1951, Schultze 1993, Schultze 2004 and Stirton 1953
Sister taxon: Protopteridae
Subtaxa: Lepidosiren Protopterus
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (5 collections), Kenya (15)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Kenya (1)
• Pliocene of Egypt (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (4), Malawi (1), Tanzania (3), Uganda (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (1), Tanzania (2), Uganda (4)
• Miocene of Brazil (1), Colombia (23), Kenya (5), Peru (2), Uganda (2)
• Oligocene of Kenya (1), Oman (1), Peru (5)
• Eocene of Algeria (1), Argentina (1), Libya (4), Mali (1), Peru (2)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Peru (2)
• Paleocene of Bolivia (1)
• Cretaceous of Bolivia (1), Egypt (2), Libya (1), Morocco (1), Niger (1), Sudan (3)
Total: 101 collections including 103 occurrences