Megalichthyidae

Megalichthyidae Temporal range: Late Devonian–Early Permian PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Tetrapodomorpha
Clade:	†Megalichthyiformes
Family:	†Megalichthyidae
Genera
†Cladarosymblema Fox et al. 1995 †Ectosteorhachis Cope 1880[1] †Mahalalepis Young, Long & Ritchie 1992 †Megalichthys †Megapomus Vorobyeva 1977 †Megistolepis Vorobyeva Vorobjeva 1977 †Palatinichthys[1] †Sengoerichthys Janvier, Clement & Cloutier 2007[1]

The Megalichthyidae are a family of prehistoric lobe-finned fishes which lived from the late Devonian to the early Permian period.^[1]

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram from Swartz, 2012:^[2]

	?†Mahalalepis resima Young, Long & Ritchie 1992 ?†Megapomus markovskyi Vorobyeva 1977 ?†Megistolepis klementzi (Obruchev 1955) Vorobjeva 1977 ?†Palatinichthys ?†Sengoerichthys ottoman Janvier, Clement & Cloutier 2007 †Ectosteorhachis nitidus Cope 1880 †Cladarosymblema narrienense Fox et al. 1995 †Megalichthys

References

1. Florian Witzmann, Rainer R. Schoch (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.
2. Swartz, B. (2012). "A marine stem-tetrapod from the Devonian of Western North America". PLoS ONE 7 (3): e33683. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033683. PMC 3308997. PMID 22448265.