Family Chaetodontidae (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Acanthopterygii - Chaetodontidae

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

See also Carnevale 2006, Danil'chenko 1980, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963 and Nelson et al. 2016

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

Subtaxa: Acanthocaetodon Centropyge Chaetodon Chaetodon penniger Chelmo Chelmon Holocentroides Pomacanthus

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection)

• Miocene of Algeria (5), Indonesia (1)

• Oligocene of Azerbaijan (1), Czechia (1), Germany (1), Poland (2)

• Eocene of France (1)

Total: 13 collections including 15 occurrences

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