Actinopteri - Albuliformes - Albulidae
Synonym: Pterothrissidae Gill 1893
Parent taxon: Albuliformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Agiadi et al. 2020, Applegate 1970, Bryant 1989, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Casier 1966, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, Ebersole et al. 2019, Estes 1964, Estes 1969, Estes and Berberian 1970, Fielitz and Bardack 1992, Fitch and Lavenberg 1983, Forey 1973, Forey et al. 2003, Gaemers 1984, Hay 1902, Hernández-Guerrero et al. 2021, Jordan 1963, Nelson et al. 2016, Nolf and Dockery 1993, Nolf and Dockery 1990, Peng et al. 2001, Schwarzhans 2003, Schwarzhans 2007, Schwarzhans and Bratischko 2011, Shimada et al. 2006, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Weems 1999 and Woodward 1901
Sister taxa: Baugeichthys, Genartina, Marathonichthys, Notacanthoidei
Subtaxa: Albulidarum Albulinae Ancylostylos Anogmius Coriops Cretalbula Deltaichthys Farinichthys Greenwoodella Italoalbula Lebonichthys Metalbula Pollerspoeckia Prochanos Pteralbula Pterothrissinae Pterothrissus Syntegmodus
Type: Albula
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Turks and Caicos Islands (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Greece (1), Jamaica (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene of France (3), Italy (1), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (1), United States (4: Virginia)
• Oligocene of Australia (3), Belgium (1), France (2), Germany (3), Hungary (1), Japan (1), Oman (1), United States (3: South Carolina)
• Eocene of Australia (3), Belgium (4), Germany (1), New Zealand (6), the United Kingdom (6), United States (18: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Peru (1)
• Paleocene of Brazil (1), Denmark (4), Greenland (1), Kazakhstan (1), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1), United States (3: Alabama, Maryland, South Carolina)
• Cretaceous of Canada (54: Alberta, Saskatchewan), Croatia (1), Germany (4), Italy (2), Lebanon (6), Mexico (2), Slovenia (1), Spain (2), United States (34: Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (5)
Total: 191 collections including 213 occurrences