Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Synodontidae
Parent taxon: Aulopoidei according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Jordan 1963, Lin et al. 2017, Nelson et al. 2016 and Nolf and Dockery 1990
Sister taxa: Aulopidae, Scopelosauridae
Subtaxa: Ausonasynodus Saurida Synodontidarum Synodus
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), Panama (1)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), France (1), Germany (1), Japan (1)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), France (1), Germany (1), Indonesia (1), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 33 collections including 37 occurrences