Actinopteri - Acanthomorpha - Moronidae
Parent taxon: Percomorpharia according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Carnevale and Godfrey 2018, Jordan 1963, Nelson et al. 2016 and Szabo et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Acropomatidae, Caesionidae, Caproidae, Centrarchiformes, Centrogenyidae, Chaetodontidae, Cirrhitiformes, Emmelichthyidae, Enoplosidae, Ephippiformes, Epigonidae, Gerreidae, Howellidae, Kuhliidae, Kyphosidae, Lateolabracidae, Leiognathidae, Lobotidae, Malacanthidae, Monodactylidae, Oplegnathidae, Pempheriformes, Percichthyidae, Polyprionidae, Pomacanthidae, Priacanthidae, Scatophagidae, Sciaenidae, Siganidae, Sillaginidae, Sinipercidae, Terapontidae, Uranoscopiformes
Subtaxa: Beaumontoperca Dicentrarchus Morone Paramorone
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador collection), Spain (1)
• Pliocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene of Czechia (2), France (2), Germany (4), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Kazakhstan (1)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (2)
• Eocene of United States (1: California)
• Cretaceous of United States (2: Montana)
Total: 20 collections including 21 occurrences