Osteichthyes - Acanthopterygii - Acropomatidae
Parent taxon: Percomorpharia according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Bannikov 2014, Carnevale et al. 2014, Jordan 1963, Nelson et al. 2016, Nolf and Dockery 1993 and Schwarzhans 2003
Sister taxa: Caesionidae, Caproidae, Chaetodontidae, Cirrhitiformes, Epigonidae, Howellidae, Lateolabracidae, Polyprionidae, Sciaenidae
Subtaxa: Acropoma Acropomatinarum Epigoninae Kaperangus Neoscombrops Parascombrops Verilus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (2 collections), Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Greece (3), Italy (1), Jamaica (1)
• Miocene of France (4), Italy (4), Japan (1), New Zealand (38)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (11)
• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (1), Hungary (2), New Zealand (4)
• Eocene of France (1), Italy (1), New Zealand (9), United States (4: Texas)
• Paleocene of Australia (1), Denmark (3)
Total: 94 collections including 106 occurrences