Skip to content
EntityQ3544436· pop 10· linked from 103 articles

Ceratodontidae

Sign in to save

Ceratodontidae is an extinct family of lungfish with fossils known worldwide from the earliest Triassic to the Eocene.

~1 min read

Encyclopedic overview

3 sections
Contents
  • Taxonomy
  • Genera
  • References

Ceratodontidae is an extinct family of lungfish with fossils known worldwide from the earliest Triassic to the Eocene.

== Taxonomy == Although the extant Queensland lungfish was formerly also classified in this family due to its similar appearance, phylogenetic and morphological evidence indicates that it belongs in a different family, Neoceratodontidae. A morphological study by Kemp et al (2017) proposed that Ceratodontidae was more closely related to modern African (Protopteridae) and South American lungfish (Leptosirenidae) than Queensland lungfish. However, Brownstein, Harrington & Near (2023) found Ceratodontidae to lie outside the crown group of modern lungfish, with all modern lungfish more closely related to each other than to Ceratodontidae.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ceratodontidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Available in 8 languages

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0