Actinopteri - Acanthomorphata - Centropomidae
Parent taxon: Carangimorphariae according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Casier 1966, Jordan 1963, Nelson et al. 2016 and Sereno et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Carangiformes, Menidae, Pleuronectiformes, Polynemidae, Toxotidae
Subtaxa: Centropomus Lates
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (5 collections), Egypt (2), Kenya (17), Niger (3), Sudan (3), United States (1: Florida)
• Blancan of United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene to Holocene of Uganda (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (3), Kenya (1), Uganda (6)
• Pliocene of Chad (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Egypt (1), Kenya (4), Tanzania (3), Uganda (10), Ukraine (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Kenya (1), Tanzania (1), Uganda (32)
• Miocene of Egypt (1), Hungary (1), Italy (2), Kenya (2), Peru (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Slovakia (1), Tunisia (5), United States (2: Florida, Texas), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Libya (2), Uzbekistan (1)
• Paleocene of Kazakhstan (1)
Total: 123 collections including 127 occurrences