Osteichthyes - Pycnodontiformes
Parent taxon: Pycnodontiformes according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Casier 1966, Forey et al. 2003, Nursall 1996 and Poyato-Ariza and Wenz 2002
Sister taxa: Acrorhinichthys, Akromystax, Arcodonichthys, Arduafrons, Brembodontidae, Camposichthys, Coccodontoidea, Eomesodon, Grimmenodon, Gyrodontoidei, Gyrodus, Gyronchus, Mesturidae, Paramesturus, Paramicrodon, Phacodus, Polygyrodus, Tibetodus, Uranoplosus
Subtaxa: Apomesodon Pycnodontoidea
Ecology: nektonic durophage-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (3: Florida, Texas collections)
• Eocene of Belgium (4), Egypt (1), France (1), India (6), Italy (4), Mali (1), Pakistan (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (7: Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia)
• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1), Mali (2)
• Paleocene of Mali (1), Mexico (2), Niger (1), Saudi Arabia (5), Spain (1), Togo (1), United States (2: New Jersey, South Carolina)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Mali (1)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (4), Argentina (2), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Bolivia (2), Brazil (7), Canada (2: Saskatchewan), the Congo-Brazzaville (1), Croatia (2), Denmark (1), Egypt (5), France (11), Germany (5), Greece (1), India (15), Israel (4), Italy (11), Jordan (1), Lebanon (13), Libya (1), Madagascar (1), Mali (3), Mexico (8), Morocco (7), the Netherlands (2), Niger (10), Palestine (1), Poland (1), Portugal (2), Romania (1), Senegal (1), Slovenia (4), Spain (13), Sweden (5), Switzerland (10), Syria (5), Thailand (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (14), United States (84: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (4), Venezuela (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of France (3)
• Jurassic of Ethiopia (1), France (10), Germany (3), Poland (1), Portugal (3), the United Kingdom (8)
Total: 352 collections including 450 occurrences