Actinopteri - Scombriformes - Scombridae
Parent taxon: Scombridae according to D. J. Cicimurri et al. 2022
See also Collette et al. 2001, Ebersole et al. 2019, Klawe 1977, Monsch 2004 and Monsch and Bannikov 2011
Sister taxa: Acanthocybiinae, Acanthocybium, Acanthonotos, Ardiodus, Cariniceps, Caucombrus, Cybium, Eoscomber, Eoscombrus, Eucynodus, Gasterochismatinae, Gasteronemus, Godsilia, Lepidocybium, Ocystias, Pelamys, Pneumatophorus, Pseudauxides, Sardinae, Sardini, Scomber, Scomberodon, Scombridarum, Scombrosarda, Thunnoscomberoides, Toxopoma, Tunita, Turio, Wetherellus, Xestias
Subtaxa: Eocoelopomini Scomberomorini Scombrini Scombrinus Thunnini
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (1 collection), Italy (1), Norway (1), the United Kingdom (2)
• Pliocene of Greece (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: California, North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Belgium (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Chile (1), Italy (2), Japan (2), Mexico (1), Peru (2), Poland (1), United States (10: California, North Carolina, Virginia)
• Oligocene of Azerbaijan (1), the Czech Republic (1), Georgia (1), Germany (1), Romania (2), Ukraine (1), United States (2: South Carolina)
• Eocene of Belgium (5), Georgia (2), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (2), Senegal (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (9), United States (14: Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia), Western Sahara (1)
Total: 79 collections including 113 occurrences