Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Bagridae
Parent taxon: Siluroidei according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Casier 1966, Frizzell and Dante 1965, Jordan 1963, Nelson et al. 2016 and Sahni and Mishra 1975
Sister taxa: Ailiidae, Akysidae, Amblycipitidae, Amphiliidae, Anchariidae, Ariidae, Arioidea, Auchenipteridae, Austroglanididae, Cetopsidae, Chacidae, Clariidae, Clarioidea, Claroteidae, Cranoglanididae, Doradoidea, Heptapteridae, Heteropneustidae, Horabagridae, Hypsidoroidea, Ictaluridae, Malapteruridae, Mochokidae, Pangasiidae, Pimelodidae, Plotosidae, Pseudopimelodidae, Ritidae, Schilbeidae, Siluridae, Siluriodae, Sisoridae, Sisoroidea
Subtaxa: Auchenoglanis Bagrus Bucklandium Claibornichthys Eomacrones Fajumia Socnopaea
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (3 collections), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (2), Niger (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Uganda (1)
• Pliocene to Holocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)
• Pliocene of Kenya (2), Malawi (1), Uganda (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Kenya (1), Uganda (2)
• Miocene of Chad (1), Kenya (2), the United Arab Emirates (1)
• Eocene of India (3), Libya (3), Pakistan (3), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Texas)
• Paleocene of Niger (1)
Total: 41 collections including 46 occurrences