Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Parent taxon: Pycnodontidae according to F. J. Poyato-Ariza and S. Wenz 2002
See also Poyato-Ariza 2010
Sister taxa: Acrotemnus, Agoultpycnodus, Anomoeodus, Athrodon, Brauccipycnodus, Callodus, Coelodus, Costapycnodus, Flagellipinna, Gregoriopycnodus, Hadrodus, Haqelpycnodus, Iemanja, Macromesodon, Njoerdichthys, Nonaphalagodus, Nursalliinae, Ocloedus, Omphalodus, Polypsephis, Proscincetes, Proscinetinae, Pycnomicrodon, Rhinopycnodus, Sphaerodus, Stemmatodus, Stenamara, Typodus, Xenopholis
Subtaxa: Oropycnodus Polazzodus Pycnodus Scalacurvichthys Tepexichthys
Type: Pycnodonteini
Ecology: nektonic durophage-carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Belgium (4 collections), Egypt (1), India (5), Italy (1), Mali (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (6: Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia)
• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1), Mali (2)
• Paleocene of Mali (1), Mexico (2), Niger (1), Saudi Arabia (5), Togo (1), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (4), Brazil (2), France (5), India (10), Italy (3), Mali (2), Mexico (3), Morocco (2), Niger (1), Palestine (1), Portugal (1), Senegal (1), Switzerland (10), the United Kingdom (1)
• Jurassic of Ethiopia (1), France (1), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 89 collections including 108 occurrences