Parent taxon: Eupercaria according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Betancur et al. 2013, Cicimurri et al. 2025 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Acanthuriformes, Asianthidae, Callanthiidae, Caproiformes, Caucasichthyidae, Centrarchiformes, Centrogenyidae, Chaetodontiformes, Dinolestidae, Dinopercidae, Emmelichthyidae, Eotrigonodontidae, Ephippiformes, Exelliidae, Gerreiformes, Labriformes, Lobotiformes, Lophiiformes, Lutjaniformes, Malacanthidae, Monodactylidae, Moronidae, Parascorpididae, Pempheriformes, Perciformes, Pietschellidae, Pomacanthidae, Priacanthiformes, Quasimullidae, Repropcidae, Scatophagidae, Siganidae, Sillaginidae, Tetraodontiformes, Uranoscopiformes
Subtaxa: Centracanthidae Lethrinidae Nemipteridae Sparidae
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), France (1), Greece (7), Italy (3), the Marshall Islands (3), New Caledonia (1), Portugal (3), Spain (2), Taiwan (1)
• Pliocene of Greece (2), Italy (3), Morocco (1), Portugal (1), Spain (1), Taiwan (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Algeria (5), Angola (2), Argentina (4), Austria (3), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (3), Czechia (3), France (7), Germany (3), Greece (5), Hungary (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (6), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (1), New Zealand (5), Panama (1), Poland (1), Portugal (6), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (8), Sri Lanka (2), Türkiye (1), United States (4: California)
• Neogene of Indonesia (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Greece (1), New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), France (2), Germany (3), Hungary (2), New Zealand (1), Oman (2), United States (5: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Barbados (1), Belgium (2), France (3), Germany (1), India (1), Italy (1), Libya (1), Namibia (1), New Zealand (2), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (13), United States (11: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia)
• Paleocene of Denmark (2), Greenland (1), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Brazil (1), France (6)
Total: 185 collections including 275 occurrences