Family Alestidae (ray-finned fish)
Actinopteri - Characiformes - Alestidae
Parent taxon: Alestoidea according to J. S. Nelson et al. 2016
See also Betancur et al. 2013 and Otero et al. 2015
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Hydrocynus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ethiopia (1 collection), Kenya (22)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (3), Uganda (4)
• Pliocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Egypt (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (10), Uganda (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1), Kenya (1), Tanzania (2), Uganda (16)
• Miocene of Chad (1), Kenya (1), Uganda (3)
• Oligocene of Kenya (1), Tanzania (1)
• Eocene of Libya (4), Namibia (1)
Total: 78 collections including 81 occurrences