Parent taxon: Aulopiformes according to A. M. Murray et al. 2022
See also Bogan and Agnolin 2010, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Forey et al. 2003, Goody 1969, Holloway et al. 2017 and Jordan 1963
Sister taxa: Acrognathus, Alepisauroidei, Aulopoidei, Bathysauroididae, Halecoidei, Ichthyotringoidei, Lestidiidae, Nardorexidae, Notolepis, Paralepididae, Paraulopidae, Paraulopoidei, Pseudotrichonotidae, Scopelarchidae, Synodidae
Subtaxa: Anotopteridae Chauliodontidae Eurypholidae Gonostomidae Idiacanthidae Maurolicidae Serrilepidae Serrilepis Spinascutichthys Stylophthalmidae Yabrudichthys
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Greece (1 collection), Japan (1), Jordan (1), Lebanon (8), Mexico (3), Morocco (1), Palestine (1), the United Kingdom (3), Uzbekistan (1)
Total: 20 collections including 25 occurrences