Family Leiognathidae (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Acanthomorpha - Leiognathidae

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

See also Bannikov 2014, Carnevale et al. 2014, Danil'chenko 1960, Danil'chenko 1980, Jordan 1963, Nelson et al. 2016, Schwarzhans and Bratischko 2011 and Yabumoto and Uyeno 1994

Sister taxa: Acropomatidae, Caesionidae, Caproidae, Centrarchiformes, Centrogenyidae, Chaetodontidae, Cirrhitiformes, Emmelichthyidae, Enoplosidae, Ephippiformes, Epigonidae, Gerreidae, Howellidae, Kuhliidae, Kyphosidae, Lateolabracidae, Lobotidae, Malacanthidae, Monodactylidae, Moronidae, Oplegnathidae, Pempheriformes, Percichthyidae, Polyprionidae, Pomacanthidae, Priacanthidae, Scatophagidae, Sciaenidae, Siganidae, Sillaginidae, Sinipercidae, Terapontidae, Uranoscopiformes

Subtaxa: Eoleiognathus Euleiognathus Gazza Leiognathus Secutor

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Ecology: nektonic omnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Gabon (1 collection), Japan (2)

• Oligocene of France (2), Hungary (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1)

• Eocene of Italy (1)

Total: 9 collections including 11 occurrences

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