Osteichthyes - Salmoniformes - Salmonidae
Parent taxon: Salmoniformes according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Betancur et al. 2013, Fierstine et al. 2012, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Nelson et al. 2016 and Wilson 1967
Sister taxa: Barcarenichthys, Casieroides, Chardonius, Cimolichthyoidei, Esocoidea, Esocoidei, Gharbouria, Ginsburgia, Goudkoffia, Myctophoidei, Natlandia, Prosopium, Pseudoleptolepis, Salmoniformorum, Thymallus
Subtaxa: Helgolandichthys Hucho Leptichthys Oncorhynchus Osmerus Rhabdofario Salmo Salmonidarum Salmoninae Salvelinus Sivulliusalmo Smilodonichthys
Type: Salmo
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (12: British Columbia, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec collections), Greenland (11), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), United States (5: California, Michigan, Oregon )
• Blancan of United States (2: California, Idaho)
• Pliocene of United States (6: California, Idaho, Oregon)
• Hemphillian of United States (6: California, Oregon)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Italy (2), United States (5: California, Idaho)
• Oligocene of Czechia (1), Romania (1)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Washington)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1)
• Cretaceous of Germany (1), United States (3: Alaska)
Total: 64 collections including 77 occurrences