Family Chiasmodontidae (ray-finned fish)
Actinopteri - 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, Caristiidae, Centrolophidae, Gempylidae, Icosteidae, Nomeidae, Pomatomidae, Scombridae, Scombroidei, Scombrolabracidae, Stromateidae, Tetragonuridae, Thunnidae, Trichiuridae
Subtaxa: Bannikovichthys
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution: found only at Torricella Peligna (Miocene of Italy)