Pantodontidae is a family of ray-finned fish in the order

Osteoglossiformes Osteoglossiformes (Greek: "bony tongues") is a relatively primitive order of ray-finned fish that contains two sub-orders, the Osteoglossoidei and the Notopteroidei. All of at least 245 living species inhabit freshwater. They are found in Sou ...

. It contains the living freshwater butterflyfish (''Pantodon buchholzi'') of Africa, as well as five extinct species from the Late Cretaceous ( Cenomanian) of Lebanon.

Taxonomy

* '' Capassopiscis'' ** ''Capassopiscis pankowskii'' * '' Palaeopantodon'' ** ''Palaeopantodon vandersypeni'' * '' Pankowskipiscis'' ** ''Pankowskipiscis haqelensis'' * '' Pantodon'' ** '' Pantodon buchholzi'' (freshwater butterflyfish) * '' Petersichthys'' ** ''Petersichthys libanicus'' * '' Prognathoglossum'' ** ''Prognathoglossum kalassyi''

References

Osteoglossiformes Ray-finned fish families Extant Cenomanian first appearances Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters {{Osteoglossiformes-stub