Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes
Parent taxon: Tetraodontiformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
Sister taxa: Alutera, Aracanidae, Atlanticopristis, Balistoidei, Bolcabalistidae, Cretazeus, Eodiodon, Eoplectidae, Indotrigonodon, Kyrtogymnodon, Moloidei, Oligodiodon, Ostracioidea, Pisdurodon, Plectocretacicoidei, Plectocretacicus, Protobalistidae, Tetraodontoidei, Triacanthodoidei, Triacanthoidei, Trigonodontoidae, Triodontidae, Zignoichthyidae
Subtaxa: Ostraciidae
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Marshall Islands (4 collections), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), United States (1: Georgia)
• Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (1)
• Eocene of Belgium (2), Italy (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (10: Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), United States (2: South Carolina, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of India (1)
Total: 27 collections including 29 occurrences