Osteichthyes - Saurichthyiformes
Parent taxon: Actinopterygii according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Cartanyà 1999, Chrzastek 2008, Long 2011, Mutter et al. 2008, Nelson et al. 2016, Sepkoski 2002 and Wu et al. 2013
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Saurichthyidae Yelangichthyidae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Canada (3: Alberta), France (1), Germany (20), the United Kingdom (10)
• Triassic of Australia (4), Austria (5), Belgium (5), Canada (6: Alberta, British Columbia), China (8), France (14), Germany (10), Greenland (3), Hungary (2), India (4), Israel (1), Italy (14), Kyrgyzstan (2), Luxembourg (1), Madagascar (6), Nepal (1), the Netherlands (2), Norway (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (4), Saudi Arabia (3), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (3), South Africa (1), Spain (12), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (16), Switzerland (39), Türkiye (2), the United Kingdom (5), United States (5: Arizona, Idaho, Nevada)
• Permian of China (1), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 220 collections including 274 occurrences