Family Centropomidae Poey 1868 (ray-finned fish)

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, Istiophoriformes, Menidae, Pleuronectiformes, Polynemidae, Toxotidae

Subtaxa: Centropomus Lates

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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), 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: 122 collections including 126 occurrences

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