Actinopteri - Scombriformes - Trichiuridae
Parent taxon: Scombriformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Casier 1966, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, Danil'chenko 1960, Danil'chenko 1980, Ebersole et al. 2019, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Miya et al. 2013, Monsch 2004, Monsch and Bannikov 2011, Nelson et al. 2016, Szabo et al. 2017, Thurmond and Jones 1981 and Weems 1999
Sister taxa: Amarsipidae, Ariommatidae, Bramidae, Caristiidae, Centrolophidae, Chiasmodontidae, Gempylidae, Icosteidae, Nomeidae, Pomatomidae, Scombridae, Scombroidei, Scombrolabracidae, Stromateidae, Tetragonuridae, Thunnidae
Subtaxa: Anenchelum Aphanopus Benthodesmus Lepidopus Trichiuridarum Trichiurinae
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (1 collection), Italy (3), the Netherlands (1), United States (1: Georgia)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Cyprus (1), Greece (5), Italy (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Azerbaijan (2), Costa Rica (1), Cyprus (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (3), Greece (6), Hungary (1), India (1), Italy (13), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Panama (1), Slovakia (1)
• Oligocene of Azerbaijan (1), the Czech Republic (3), France (1), Georgia (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Poland (1), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (2), Switzerland (1), United States (3: South Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Barbados (3), Belgium (2), Georgia (1), India (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), Nigeria (2), Pakistan (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (9), United States (21: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia), Western Sahara (2)
Total: 116 collections including 154 occurrences