Suborder Berycoidei Patterson 1964 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Beryciformes

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 R. van der Laan 2019

See also Casier 1966, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Patterson 1964, Schwarzhans 2003, Schwarzhans and Bratischko 2011 and Schwarzhans et al. 2017

Sister taxa: Africentrum, Anoplogastridae, Berycidae, Berycomorus, Beryx dalmaticus, Beryx subovatus, Brazosiella, Cryptoberyx, Ctenoberyx, Dinopterygoidei, Diretmidae, Holocentrites, Holocentroidea, Holocentroidei, Inocentrus, Kryptophanaron, Melamphaidae, Monocentridae, Omosoma, Pattersonoberyx, Plectrypops, Plesioberyx, Polymixioidei, Poromitra, Pseudholocentrum, Pseudomonocentrididae, Sargocentron, Scianenuropsis, Stephanoberycoidei, Trachichthyoidei

Subtaxa: Austrocentris Lobopterus Quaesitoberycidae Sagaberyx Trachichthodes Trachichthodidae

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Type: Beryx

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Australia (5 collections)

• Oligocene of Australia (2), Japan (1)

• Eocene of Belgium (1), France (1), New Zealand (11)

• Cretaceous of Lebanon (3), Slovenia (1)

Total: 25 collections including 26 occurrences

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