Actinopteri - Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Full reference: A. S. Woodward. 1890. The fossil fishes of the Hawkesbury Series at Gosford. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales. Palaeontology 4:1-57
Parent taxon: Pholidophoriformes according to G. Arratia 2017
See also Arratia 2013, Cartanyà 1999, Friedman et al. 2010, Gardiner 1960, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Nelson et al. 2016, Tintori et al. 2015, Woodward 1890, Woodward 1895 and Zambelli 1986
Sister taxa: Ankylophoridae, Archaeomaenidae, Catervariolidae, Eurycormidae, Grimmenichthys, Ichthyokentemidae, Luxembourgichthys, Pleuropholidae
Subtaxa: Annaichthys Archaeomaene Ceneichthys Ceramurus Eopholidophorus Knerichthys Lombardichthys Malingichthys Neopholidophoropsis Parapholidophorus Pholidoctenus Pholidolepis Pholidophoretes Pholidophorinae Pholidophoroides Pholidophoropsis Pholidophorus Pseudopholidoctenus Zambellichthys
Type: Pholidophorus
Ecology: suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Belgium (1 collection), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Jurassic of Australia (1), Chile (1), France (6), Germany (6), Italy (4), the United Kingdom (15)
• Triassic to Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of Australia (2), Austria (11), China (1), Germany (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (14), South Africa (2), Spain (4), the United Kingdom (5)
Total: 79 collections including 118 occurrences