Order Polypteriformes (ray-finned fish)
Parent taxon: Cladistia according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Long 2011, Meyer and Zardoya 2003, Nelson 2006 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxon: Calamoichthyidae
Subtaxa: Pollia Polypteridae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (2 collections), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (24), Niger (2), Sudan (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Kenya (1)
• Pliocene of Egypt (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (5)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (3)
• Miocene of Chad (2), Kenya (4), Tunisia (2)
• Oligocene of Kenya (1)
• Eocene of Algeria (2), Libya (3)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (2), Bolivia (1), Egypt (3), Morocco (2), Sudan (1)
Total: 65 collections each including a single occurrence