Family Trachinidae (ray-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Acanthopterygii - Trachinidae
Parent taxon: Trachiniformes according to J. S. Nelson et al. 2016
See also Jordan 1963 and Přikryl et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Ammodytidae, Champsodontidae, Cheimarrhichthyidae, Leptoscopidae
Subtaxa: Trachinus
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (1 collection)
• Pliocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene of Belgium (1), France (4), Germany (1), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (1)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), France (1), Germany (2)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (7: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia)
Total: 28 collections including 32 occurrences