Name ascribed to Agassiz in Dixon 1850.
Synonym: Platycormus von der Marck 1858
Parent taxon: Beryciformes according to K. Dietze 2009
See also Bannikov and Bacchia 2005, Dixon 1850, Patterson 1964, Patterson 1993, Sepkoski 2002 and Woodward 1902
Sister taxa: Africentrum, Anoplogastridae, Barbourisiidae, Berycidae, Berycoidei, Berycomorus, Beryx dalmaticus, Beryx subovatus, Brazosiella, Cetomimidae, Cryptoberyx, Ctenoberyx, Dinopterygoidei, Diretmidae, Gibberichthyidae, Hispidoberycidae, Holocentrites, Holocentroidea, Holocentroidei, Inocentrus, Kryptophanaron, Melamphaidae, Monocentridae, Omosoma, Pattersonoberyx, Plectrypops, Plesioberyx, Polymixioidei, Poromitra, Pseudholocentrum, Pseudomonocentrididae, Quaesitoberycidae, Rondeletiidae, Sargocentron, Scianenuropsis, Stephanoberycidae, Trachichthyoidei
Subtaxa: Berycopsis elegans Berycopsis germanus Berycopsis paucoradius Berycopsis pulcher Platycormus gibbosus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Germany (6 collections), Lebanon (2), the United Kingdom (5)
Total: 13 collections including 15 occurrences
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