Actinopteri - Beryciformes - Trachichthyidae
Parent taxon: Berycoidei according to W. Schwarzhans et al. 2017
See also Applegate 1970, Betancur et al. 2013, Casier 1966, Danil'chenko 1960, Jordan 1963, Lin et al. 2017, Nelson et al. 2016, Nolf and Dockery 1993, Nolf and Dockery 1990 and Patterson 1964
Sister taxa: Austrocentris, Hoplopterygidae, Lobopterus, Sagaberyx, Trachichthodes, Trachichthodidae
Subtaxa: Egregioberyx Eregioberyx Gephyroberyx Hoplostethus Lissoberycinae Notoberyx Optivus Paratrachichthys Trachichthyidarum
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (2 collections), New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Italy (2), New Zealand (1)
• Miocene of France (5), Italy (8), New Zealand (14)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (2), Germany (2), New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (1), Germany (1), New Zealand (3)
• Paleocene of Denmark (4), Greenland (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of Mexico (1), United States (2: Alabama, Maryland)
Total: 56 collections including 62 occurrences