Osteichthyes - Aulopiformes - Synodontidae
Parent taxon: Aulopoidei according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Jordan 1963, Lin et al. 2017, Nelson et al. 2016, Nolf and Dockery 1990 and Schwarzhans and Nielsen 2021
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), Chile (3), Czechia (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: 36 collections including 40 occurrences