Family Caproidae (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Acanthopterygii - Caproidae

Parent taxon: Percomorpharia according to R. Betancur et al. 2013

See also Bannikov 2014, Danil'chenko 1960, Jordan 1963, Nelson et al. 2016, Přikryl et al. 2016, Schwarzhans 2007 and Sorbini and Bottura 1988

Sister taxa: Acropomatidae, Caesionidae, Chaetodontidae, Cirrhitiformes, Epigonidae, Howellidae, Lateolabracidae, Polyprionidae, Sciaenidae

Subtaxa: Capros Caprovesposus Eoantigonia

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Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)

• Pliocene of Italy (3)

• Miocene of Algeria (4), Austria (1), Czechia (1), Greece (1), Italy (3)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Georgia (1)

• Oligocene of Czechia (1), Poland (1), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (1)

• Eocene of Italy (1)

Total: 23 collections including 29 occurrences

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