Actinopteri - Beryciformes - Berycidae
Parent taxon: Beryciformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Casier 1966, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Nelson et al. 2016, Nolf and Dockery 1993, Rapp 1946, Schwarzhans 2003, Schwarzhans 2007, Schwarzhans and Bratischko 2011, Schwarzhans et al. 2017 and Woodward 1902
Sister taxa: Africentrum, Anoplogastridae, Barbourisiidae, Berycoidei, Berycomorus, Berycopsis, Beryx dalmaticus, Beryx subovatus, Brazosiella, Cetomimidae, Cryptoberyx, Ctenoberyx, Dinopterygoidei, Diretmidae, Gibberichthyidae, Hispidoberycidae, Holocentrites, Holocentroidea, Holocentroidei, Inocentrus, Kryptophanaron, Melamphaidae, Monocentridae, Omosoma, Pattersonoberyx, Plectrypops, Plesioberyx, Polymixioidei, Poromitra, Pseudholocentrum, Pseudomonocentrididae, Quaesitoberycidae, Rondeletiidae, Sargocentron, Scianenuropsis, Stephanoberycidae, Trachichthyoidei
Subtaxa: Argilloberyx Beryx Centroberyx Nishiberyx
Type: Beryx
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of New Zealand (8 collections), United States (1: California)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (2)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (1), Japan (1), New Zealand (2), Romania (1), United States (1: Louisiana)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), France (2), Germany (1), New Zealand (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: California)
• Paleocene of Denmark (4), Greenland (1), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of United States (1: South Dakota)
Total: 35 collections including 43 occurrences