Order Batrachoidiformes (toadfish)

Osteichthyes - Batrachoidiformes

Parent taxon: Batrachoidaria according to R. van der Laan 2019

See also Betancur et al. 2013, Carnevale and Godfrey 2018, Fierstine et al. 2012, Long 2011, Nelson 2006, Nelson et al. 2016, Purdy et al. 2001 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Batrachoididae Batrachoidiformorum Perulibatrachus

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Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (8: California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Virginia collections)

• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Jamaica (1), United States (3: California, Florida, North Carolina)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (1), Gabon (1), Greece (1), India (1), Italy (10), Panama (5)

• Oligocene of Czechia (1), Romania (1)

• Eocene of Germany (1)

• Paleocene of Greenland (1)

Total: 37 collections including 43 occurrences

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