Alternative spellings: Berycoidea, Berycoidea
Full reference: C. Patterson. 1964. A review of Mesozoic acanthopterygian fishes, with special reference to those of the English Chalk. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (Series B) 247(739):213-482
Parent taxon: Beryciformes according to W. Schwarzhans et al. 2017
See also Casier 1966, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Patterson 1964, Schwarzhans 2003 and Schwarzhans and Bratischko 2011
Sister taxa: Africentrum, Anoplogastridae, Barbourisiidae, Berycidae, Berycomorus, Berycopsis, Beryx dalmaticus, Beryx subovatus, Brazosiella, Cetomimidae, Cryptoberyx, Ctenoberyx, Dinopterygoidei, Diretmidae, Gibberichthyidae, Hispidoberycidae, Holocentrites, Holocentroidea, Holocentroidei, Inocentrus, Kryptophanaron, Melamphaidae, Monocentridae, Omosoma, Pattersonoberyx, Plectrypops, Plesioberyx, Polymixioidei, Poromitra, Pseudholocentrum, Pseudomonocentrididae, Quaesitoberycidae, Rondeletiidae, Sargocentron, Scianenuropsis, Stephanoberycidae, Trachichthyoidei
Subtaxa: Austrocentris Hoplopterygidae Lobopterus Sagaberyx Trachichthodes Trachichthodidae Trachichthyidae
Type: Beryx
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (2 collections), New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Italy (2), New Zealand (1)
• Miocene of Australia (5), France (5), Italy (8), New Zealand (14)
• Oligocene of Australia (3), the Czech Republic (1), France (2), Germany (2), Japan (1), New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (1), Belgium (1), France (1), Germany (1), New Zealand (12)
• Paleocene of Denmark (4), Greenland (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of Mexico (1), Slovenia (1), United States (2: Alabama, Maryland)
Total: 76 collections including 85 occurrences