Osteichthyes - Scombriformes - Scombridae
Parent taxon: Scombridae according to D. J. Cicimurri et al. 2025
See also Cicimurri et al. 2022, Collette et al. 2001, Ebersole et al. 2019, Klawe 1977, Monsch 2004, Monsch and Bannikov 2011 and Trif et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Acanthocybiinae, Acanthonotos, Ardiodus, Cariniceps, Caucombrus, Cybium, Eocoelopoma, Eocoelopomini, Eoscomber, Eoscombrus, Eucynodus, Gasterochismatinae, Gasteronemus, Godsilia, Lepidocybium, Ocystias, Pelamys, Pneumatophorus, Pseudauxides, Sardinae, Sardini, Scomber, Scomberodon, Scombridarum, Scombrinus, Scombrosarda, Thunnoscomberoides, Toxopoma, Tunita, Turio, Wetherellus, Xestias
Subtaxa: Scomberomorini Scombrini Thunnini
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
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), Chile (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Angola (1), Belgium (1), Chile (1), Italy (2), Japan (2), Mexico (1), Peru (2), Poland (1), United States (10: California, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of Azerbaijan (1), Czechia (1), Germany (1), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1), United States (3: Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Belgium (5), Georgia (2), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (2), Kyrgyzstan (1), Romania (1), Senegal (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (8), United States (14: Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia), Western Sahara (1)
Total: 85 collections including 125 occurrences