Actinopteri - Istiophoriformes
Parent taxon: Ovalentaria according to D. J. Cicimurri et al. 2025
See also Betancur et al. 2013, Ebersole et al. 2019, Ebersole et al. 2024 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Acanthuriformes, Blenniomorphae, Callionymiformes, Caproiformes, Cylindracanthus, Gobiesociformes, Grammatidae, Icosteiformes, Labriformes, Lophiiformes, Moroniformes, Perciformes, Scombriformes, Scombrolabraciformes, Spariformes, Trachiniformes
Subtaxa: Istiophoridae Sphyraenidae Xiphiidae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Greece (1), Italy (1), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), United States (8: California, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Blancan of United States (1: California)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), France (1), Italy (3), Jamaica (1), Libya (1), Mexico (3), New Zealand (1), South Africa (1), United States (4: California, Florida, North Carolina)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Austria (2), Azerbaijan (1), Brazil (2), Chile (3), Colombia (4), Costa Rica (2), Czechia (2), France (2), Hungary (1), India (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (4), Mexico (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (2), Peru (5), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Sao Tome and Principe (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (1), United States (11: California, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), France (1), Germany (2), Hungary (1), United States (9: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Barbados (8), Belgium (1), Germany (1), India (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), Nigeria (2), Pakistan (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (21: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Western Sahara (2)
• Paleocene of United States (2: Maryland, New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of India (1)
Total: 151 collections including 196 occurrences