Actinopteri - 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 and Monsch and Bannikov 2011
Sister taxa: Acanthocybiinae, Acanthonotos, Ardiodus, Cariniceps, Caucombrus, Cybium, 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: Eocoelopomini Scomberomorini Scombrini Thunnini
Ecology:
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), 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), Senegal (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (10), United States (14: Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia), Western Sahara (1)
Total: 83 collections including 130 occurrences