Ceratodontidae
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Ceratodus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Class: | Dipnoi |
| Order: | Ceratodontiformes |
| Family: | †Ceratodontidae Gill, 1872 |
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Ceratodontidae is an extinct family of lungfish with fossils known worldwide from the earliest Triassic to the Eocene.
Taxonomy
Although the extant
African (Protopteridae) and South American lungfish (Leptosirenidae) than Queensland lungfish.[1] 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.[2]
Genera
The following genera are known from the family:[3]
- †Arganodus (alternatively placed in own family, Arganodontidae)
- †Ariguna
- †Ceratodus
- †Epiceratodus
- †Lupaceratodus Galula Formation, Tanzania, Cretaceous
- †Metaceratodus
- †Microceratodus (?)
- †Potamoceratodus
- †Tellerodus
- †Retodus
References
- ^ ISSN 0031-0182.
- ISSN 0305-0270.
- ^ "Fossilworks: Ceratodontidae". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ "Fossilworks: Paraceratodus". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.