Taxonomy from Lehman 1952. Genus Diagnosis from White 1933, p. 118: "Palæoniscidæ with fusiform bodies, long heads, and large orbits anteriorly placed. Gape wide and suspensorium very oblique. Frontals long with extreme irregular media] and digitate parietal sutures; parietals well developed with short triradiate sensory grooves and produced forwards into conspicuous median “ processes.” Preoperculum bent almost at fight-angles, with upper horizontal limb long and roughly triangular, but tru