Family Chiasmodontidae (ray-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Scombriformes - Chiasmodontidae
Parent taxon: Scombriformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Danil'chenko 1960, Danil'chenko 1980, Jordan 1963, Miya et al. 2013 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Amarsipidae, Ariommatidae, Bramidae, Carangodidae, Caristiidae, Centrolophidae, Euzaphlegidae, Gempylidae, Icosteidae, Nomeidae, Pomatomidae, Scombridae, Scombroidei, Scombrolabracidae, Scombropidae, Stromateidae, Tetragonuridae, Thunnidae, Trichiuridae
Subtaxa: Bannikovichthys
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Torricella Peligna (Miocene of Italy)