Family Ephippidae Bleeker 1859 (ray-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Ephippiformes - Ephippidae
Parent taxon: Ephippiformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Blot 1969, Carnevale et al. 2014, Casier 1966, Jordan 1963, Nelson et al. 2016 and van der Laan 2019
Sister taxa: Drepaneidae, Drepanidae
Subtaxa: Archaephippus Chaetodipterus Eoplatax Laparon Whitephippus
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (1: Florida collection)
• Eocene of Italy (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 5 collections including 8 occurrences