Megalichthyidae

Megalichthyidae; Temporal range:
	Fossil of Ectosteorhachis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Tetrapodomorpha
Clade:	†Megalichthyiformes
Family:	†Megalichthyidae; Hay, 1902
Genera
	†Askerichthys Borgen & Nakrem, 2016[1]; †Cladarosymblema Fox et al., 1995; †Ectosteorhachis Cope, 1880[2]; †Mahalalepis Young, Long & Ritchie, 1992; †Megalichthys Agassiz, 1835; †Megapomus Vorobyeva, 1977; †Megistolepis Vorobyeva, 1977; †Palatinichthys Witzmann & Schoch, 2012[2]; †Sengoerichthys Janvier, Clement & Cloutier, 2007[2];

Megalichthyidae is an extinct family of tetrapodomorphs which lived from the Late Devonian to the Early Permian.[2]

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram from Clement et al., 2021:[3]

Megalichthyidae

Palatinichthys

Megalichthys laticeps

Megalichthys mullisoni

Sengoerichthys

Ulf J. Borgen; Hans A. Nakrem (2016). Fossils and Strata, Number 61, Morphology, phylogeny and taxonomy of osteolepiform fish. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 1–514. doi:10.1002/9781119286448. ISBN 978-1-119-28643-1.
Witzmann, F.; Schoch, R. R. (2012). "A megalichthyid sarcopterygian fish from the Lower Permian (Autunian) of the Saar-Nahe Basin, Germany". Geobios. 45 (2): 241–248. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2011.03.002.
Clement, A. M.; Cloutier, R.; Lu, J.; Perilli, E.; Maksimenko, A.; Long, J. (2021). "A fresh look at Cladarosymblema narrienense, a tetrapodomorph fish (Sarcopterygii: Megalichthyidae) from the Carboniferous of Australia, illuminated via X-ray tomography". PeerJ. 9: e12597. doi:10.7717/peerj.12597.

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