Osteichthyes - Osteolepidida - Osteolepididae
NOT Cope 1889
Synonym: Glyptodipterini Huxley 1861
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1887. Zittel's Manual of Palaeontology. The American Naturalist 21(11):1014-1019
Parent taxon: Osteolepidida according to Otto 1999
See also Borgen and Nakrem 2016, Chang and Zhu 1993, Cope 1887, Huxley 1861, Lebedev 1995, Nelson et al. 2016 and Young and Schultze 2005
Sister taxon: Osteolepidiformes
Subtaxa: Glyptolaemus Glyptopominae Muranjilepis Osteolepidinae Platygnathus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of the Russian Federation (1 collection)
• Givetian of the United Kingdom (1)
• Devonian of Australia (2), Belarus (4), Estonia (4), Germany (3), Iran (1), Latvia (3), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (15), United States (6: Colorado, Iowa, Pennsylvania)
Total: 42 collections each including a single occurrence