Parent taxon: Aulopiformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Prokofiev 2006
Sister taxa: Acrognathus, Alepisauroidei, Bathysauroididae, Enchodontoidei, Halecoidei, Ichthyotringoidei, Lestidiidae, Notolepis, Paralepididae, Paraulopidae, Paraulopoidei, Pseudotrichonotidae, Scopelarchidae, Synodidae
Subtaxa: Aulopidae Scopelosauridae Synodontidae
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (3: Georgia, Louisiana collections)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Italy (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (5), Gabon (1), Italy (5), New Zealand (1), Panama (1)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), France (1), Germany (1), Japan (1)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), France (1), Germany (1), Indonesia (1), New Zealand (11), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (3)
• Cretaceous of Croatia (1), Lebanon (4)
Total: 52 collections including 61 occurrences