“…Vogelgnathus campbelli is cosmopolitan and has been reported from many regions of middle and low latitudes (e.g., North America: Rexroad, 1957; Globensky, 1967; Purnell and von Bitter, 1992a; western Europe: Rhodes et al, 1969; Park, 1983; van den Boogaard, 1992; Purnell and von Bitter, 1992a; Nemyrovska and Samankassou, 2005; eastern Europe: Kabanov et al, 2009; East Asia: Igo, 1973; Qi et al, 2014; north coast of Gondwana: Jenkins et al, 1993; Nemyrovska et al, 2006; Medina-Varea, 2018; Atakul-Ozdemir et al, 2019; south Urals of central Asia: unpublished materials of the authors). We accept the recently revised phylogeny (Purnell and von Bitter, 1992a; Nemyrovska and Samankassou, 2005; Sanz-Lopez et al, 2019), and the profiles of our specimens are more like the possible ancestor V . simplicatus (Rhodes, Austin, and Druce, 1969) rather than the possible descendant V .…”