Family Menidae Gill 1885 (moonfish)

Osteichthyes - Acanthopterygii - Menidae

Parent taxon: Carangaria according to R. van der Laan 2019

See also Bannikov 2014, Betancur et al. 2013, Carnevale et al. 2014, Danil'chenko 1980, Friedman and Johnson 2005, Jordan 1963, Nelson et al. 2016 and Patterson 1964

Sister taxa: Carangiformes, Centropomidae, Istiophoriformes, Lactariidae, Pleuronectiformes, Polynemidae, Pygaeidae, Sphyraenidae, Toxotidae

Subtaxa: Bathysoma Mene Menidarum

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of Greece (2 collections), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene of Czechia (1)

• Eocene of France (1), India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Turkmenistan (1), United States (2: Texas)

• Paleocene of Peru (1)

Total: 12 collections including 13 occurrences

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