Actinopteri - Acanthomorphata - Haemulidae
Parent taxon: Percomorpharia according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Agiadi et al. 2020, Lin et al. 2017, Nelson et al. 2016 and Schwarzhans and Bratischko 2011
Sister taxa: Acanthuriformes, Acropomatidae, Caesionidae, Caproidae, Centrarchiformes, Centrogenyidae, Chaetodontidae, Cirrhitiformes, Emmelichthyidae, Enoplosidae, Ephippiformes, Epigonidae, Gerreidae, 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: Anisotremus Haemulidarum Haemulinae Orthopristis Plectorhynchinae Pomadasys
Type: Haemulon
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (2 collections), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), United States (2: California, Louisiana)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Greece (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), United States (2: Florida, North Carolina)
• Miocene of Algeria (5), Chile (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (4), Italy (2), Panama (8), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Greece (1)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (1), United States (1: Louisiana)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Belgium (1), France (2), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (16: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia)
• Paleocene of Greenland (1), Ukraine (1)
• Devonian of the Czech Republic (1)
Total: 68 collections including 104 occurrences