Family Carapidae Jordan and Fowler 1902 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Ophidiiformes - Carapidae

Parent taxon: Ophidioidei according to W. W. Schwarzhans and S. N. Nielsen 2021

See also Frizzell and Dante 1965, Nelson et al. 2016 and Schwarzhans and Bratischko 2011

Sister taxa: Ophidiidae, Ophidioidae

Subtaxa: Carapinae Carapus Echiodon Encheliophis Eurypleuron Fierasferoides Jordanicus Onuxodon Paracarapus

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Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore-parasite

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Greece (4 collections), Italy (4), United States (1: Louisiana)

• Pliocene of Greece (2), Italy (2), Jamaica (1)

• Miocene of Australia (4), Chile (3), Czechia (3), France (4), Germany (1), Greece (1), Italy (3), New Zealand (32)

• Waitakian of New Zealand (11)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Greece (1), New Zealand (1)

• Oligocene of Australia (3), France (1), Germany (1), Hungary (2), New Zealand (7)

• Eocene of France (4), Germany (1), Indonesia (1), United States (5: California, Louisiana, Texas)

• Paleocene of Ukraine (1)

Total: 104 collections including 140 occurrences

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