Actinopteri - Scombriformes - Scombridae
Alternative spellings: Scomberoidei, Scomberoides
Parent taxon: Scombriformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Bannikov 2014, Carnevale and Godfrey 2018, Casier 1966, Danil'chenko 1960, Danil'chenko 1980, David 1943, Ebersole et al. 2019, Fierstine et al. 2012, Jordan 1963, Miya et al. 2013, Monsch and Bannikov 2011, Monsch et al. 2005, Nelson et al. 2016, Owen 1854, Přikryl et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001, Schwarzhans and Bratischko 2011, Uyeno and Fujui 1975, Weems 1999 and Weiler 1938
Sister taxa: Amarsipidae, Ariommatidae, Bramidae, Caristiidae, Centrolophidae, Chiasmodontidae, Gempylidae, Icosteidae, Nomeidae, Pomatomidae, Scombroidei, Scombrolabracidae, Stromateidae, Tetragonuridae, Thunnidae, Trichiuridae
Subtaxa: Acanthocybiinae Acanthocybium Acanthonotos Ardiodus Cariniceps Caucombrus Cybium Eoscomber Eoscombrus Eucynodus Gasterochismatinae Gasteronemus Godsilia Lepidocybium Ocystias Pelamys Pneumatophorus Pseudauxides Sardinae Sardini Scomber Scomberodon Scombridarum Scombrinae Scombrosarda Thunnoscomberoides Toxopoma Tunita Turio Wetherellus Xestias
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Bulgaria (1 collection), Greece (1), Italy (1), the Marshall Islands (1), Norway (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Georgia)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Cyprus (1), Greece (1), Italy (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: California, North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Belgium (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Algeria (5), Austria (2), Azerbaijan (2), Belgium (1), Chile (2), the Czech Republic (1), France (3), India (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (4), Japan (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (3), Peru (3), Poland (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (5), United States (21: California, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (3)
• Oligocene of Azerbaijan (2), Belgium (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (2), Georgia (1), Germany (2), Hungary (1), Kazakhstan (1), Poland (1), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1), United States (3: South Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of Belgium (6), France (1), Georgia (2), Germany (1), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (2), Senegal (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (11), United States (18: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland , Mississippi, Texas, Virginia), Western Sahara (2)
• Paleocene of Ukraine (1), United States (1: Maryland)
Total: 160 collections including 250 occurrences