Infraorder Cottales (perch-like fish)

Osteichthyes - Perciformes

Parent taxon: Cottoidei according to R. van der Laan 2019

See also Betancur et al. 2013

Sister taxa: Anoplopomatales, Cottoideorum, Gasterosteales, Hexagrammales, Zaniolepidales, Zoarcales

Subtaxa: Agonidae Cottidae Cyclopteridae Jordaniidae Liparidae Psychrolutidae Rhamphocottidae Scorpaenichthyidae Trichodontidae

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Greece (1 collection), Greenland (1), Japan (2), United States (12: California, Oregon)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: California)

• Pliocene of United States (3: California, North Carolina)

• Miocene of Chile (4), Italy (1), New Zealand (11), United States (2: California)

• Oligocene of Belgium (3), New Zealand (1)

• Eocene of New Zealand (2), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 45 collections including 71 occurrences

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