Actinopteri - Spariformes - Sparidae
Alternative spelling: Sparoidei
Parent taxon: Spariformes according to D. J. Cicimurri et al. 2025
See also Bannikov 2014, Betancur et al. 2013, Carnevale et al. 2014, Casier 1966, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Danil'chenko 1980, David 1943, Day 2002, Fierstine et al. 2012, Gaemers 1984, Jordan 1963, Mors et al. 2000, Nolf and Dockery 1993, Purdy et al. 2001, Schwarzhans 2003, Schwarzhans and Bratischko 2011, Szabo et al. 2017 and Weems 1999
Sister taxa: Callanthiidae, Centracanthidae, Lethrinidae, Nemipteridae
Subtaxa: Abromasta Denticinae Dentinae Diplodus Ellaserrata Plectrites Pseudosparnodus Rythmias Sargus Sciaenurus Sparidarum Sparnodus Sparus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), France (1), Greece (5), Italy (1), Spain (2)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Greece (2), Italy (1), Morocco (1), Portugal (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (4), Argentina (4), Austria (3), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (2), Czechia (3), France (7), Germany (3), Greece (5), Hungary (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (5), Japan (1), New Zealand (5), Panama (1), Poland (1), Portugal (2), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (8), Sri Lanka (2), Türkiye (1), United States (4: California)
• Neogene of Indonesia (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), France (1), Germany (3), Hungary (2), New Zealand (1), Oman (2), United States (4: Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Barbados (1), Belgium (2), Germany (1), Italy (1), Libya (1), Namibia (1), the United Kingdom (12), United States (2: Louisiana, Virginia)
• Paleocene of Denmark (2), Greenland (1), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Brazil (1), France (6)
Total: 140 collections including 191 occurrences