Actinopteri - Acanthomorphata - 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: Acanthuriformes, Acropomatidae, Caesionidae, Centrarchiformes, Centrogenyidae, Chaetodontidae, Cirrhitiformes, Emmelichthyidae, Enoplosidae, Ephippiformes, Epigonidae, Gerreidae, Haemulidae, Howellidae, Kuhliidae, Kyphosidae, Labriformes, Lateolabracidae, Leiognathidae, Lobotidae, Lophiiformes, Lutjanidae, Malacanthidae, Monodactylidae, Moronidae, Oplegnathidae, Pempheriformes, Percichthyidae, Perciformes, Polyprionidae, Pomacanthidae, Priacanthidae, Scatophagidae, Sciaenidae, Siganidae, Sillaginidae, Sinipercidae, Spariformes, Terapontidae, Tetraodontiformes, Uranoscopiformes
Subtaxa: Capros Caprovesposus Eoantigonia
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Italy (3)
• Miocene of Algeria (4), Austria (1), the Czech Republic (1), Greece (1), Italy (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Georgia (1)
• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (1), Georgia (1), Poland (1), Romania (3)
• Eocene of Italy (1)
Total: 23 collections including 29 occurrences