Osteichthyes - Ionoscopiformes
Parent taxon: Halecomorphi according to G. H. Xu et al. 2014
See also Alvarado-Ortega and Espinosa-Arrubarrena 2008, Brito 2000, Machado et al. 2013 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Allolepidotus, Cipactlichthys, Gigantodontidae, Isopholidae, Ophiopsiformes, Ophiopsiidae, Panxianichthyiformes, Parasemionotiformes, Pholidophorus curionii, Pholidophorus oblongus, Pingolepidae, Praesemionotidae, Prosantichthys, Sinamiidae
Subtaxa: Asialepidotus Furidae Robustichthys Sanctusichthys Subortichthyidae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Belgium (1 collection), France (1), Germany (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (2)
• Jurassic of France (5), Germany (3), Italy (1), Morocco (3), Portugal (1), the United Kingdom (9)
• Triassic of Austria (2), China (13), Italy (11), Luxembourg (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (8), Switzerland (9)
Total: 74 collections including 118 occurrences