Osteichthyes - Ptycholepidiformes - Ptycholepididae
Alternative spelling: Ptycholepidae
Parent taxon: Ptycholepidiformes according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Cartanyà 1999, Gardiner 1960, Nelson 2006, Nelson et al. 2016 and Tintori et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Chungkingichthyidae, Yuchoulepis
Subtaxa: Acrorhabdus Ardoreosomus Boreosomus Ptycholepis
Type: Ptycholepis
Distribution:
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Thailand (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Belgium (1), China (2), France (3), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (4: Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia)
• Triassic of Canada (2: British Columbia), China (2), Greenland (4), Italy (7), Madagascar (5), Spain (6), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (17), Switzerland (8), United States (5: Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Virginia)
Total: 76 collections including 99 occurrences