Family Cheilodactylidae Bonaparte 1850 (ray-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Centrarchiformes - Cheilodactylidae
Parent taxon: Cirrhitoidei according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Betancur et al. 2013, Jordan 1963 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Aplodactylidae, Chironemidae, Cirrhitidae, Latridae
Subtaxa: Cheilodactylus Nemadactylus
Type: Cheilodactylus
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Chile (1 collection)
• Miocene of New Zealand (1)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (2)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence