Neoceratodontidae

Neoceratodontidae; Temporal range: Middle Triassic - Holocene, 247.2 - 0 Mya (but see text) PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteni)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	Dipnoi
Suborder:	Ceratodontoidei
Family:	Neoceratodontidae; Miles, 1977
Genera
	†Archaeoceratodus; †Asiatoceratodus; †Mioceratodus; Neoceratodus;

Neoceratodontidae is a family of lungfish containing the extant Australian lungfish and several extinct genera. It and Lepidosirenidae represent the only lungfish families still extant.

Fossils from this family are first known from Triassic-aged sediments in Kyrgyzstan, but phylogenetic evidence indicates that it first originated near the end of the Carboniferous period. Despite their name, they are in fact basal to the related genus Ceratodus (and thus diverged before Ceratodus did), rather than vice versa.[1][2]

References

"Fossilworks: Neoceratodontidae". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
Kemp, Anne; Cavin, Lionel; Guinot, Guillaume (2017-04-01). "Evolutionary history of lungfishes with a new phylogeny of post-Devonian genera". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 471: 209–219. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.12.051. ISSN 0031-0182.

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[1] "Fossilworks: Neoceratodontidae". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2020-10-19.

[2] Kemp, Anne; Cavin, Lionel; Guinot, Guillaume (2017-04-01). "Evolutionary history of lungfishes with a new phylogeny of post-Devonian genera". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 471: 209–219. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.12.051. ISSN 0031-0182.