Osteichthyes - Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae
Parent taxon: Platysomiformes according to A. S. Bakaev et al. 2020
See also Aldinger 1937, Gardiner 1960, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Nelson 2006 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Aestuarichthys Caruichthys Ecrinesomus Enzichthys Eurynotus Eurysomus Kargalichthys Mesolepis Ningxiaplatysomus Paramesolepis Paranaichthys Platysomus Sinoplatysomus Soetendalichthys Ufalepis Wardichthys
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of United States (1: Connecticut collection)
• Triassic of Australia (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Greenland (1), Madagascar (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), United States (1: Virginia)
• Tatarian of the Russian Federation (6)
• Permian of Australia (1), Bolivia (1), Brazil (1), China (1), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (10), Greenland (1), Lithuania (1), the Russian Federation (42), South Africa (2), the United Kingdom (6), United States (15: Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), China (1), France (2), South Africa (4), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (38), United States (11: Illinois, Kansas, Montana, New Mexico)
Total: 157 collections including 231 occurrences