Parent taxon: Alepisauroidei according to J. A. Ebersole et al. 2022
See also Nazarkin 2016 and Suzuki 2018
Sister taxa: Aspidopleuridae, Aspidopleurus, Bathysauridae, Chlorophthalmidae, Evermannellidae, Giganturidae, Ipnopidae, Notosudidae, Polymerichthyidae, Sudidae
Subtaxa: Alepisauridae Enchodontidae
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Italy (1 collection), Japan (1), United States (4: New Jersey, Virginia)
• Eocene of France (1), India (1), Spain (1), Uzbekistan (2)
• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1), Saudi Arabia (1)
• Paleocene of Bolivia (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (2: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Angola (10), Argentina (1), Belgium (1), Bolivia (1), Brazil (4), Canada (11: Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan), Chile (1), the Congo-Brazzaville (1), Egypt (7), Equatorial Guinea (1), France (4), Germany (11), Greece (4), India (7), Israel (3), Italy (3), Japan (1), Jordan (5), Kazakhstan (1), Lebanon (10), Libya (1), Mali (1), Mexico (7), Morocco (6), the Netherlands (3), Niger (8), Palestine (1), the Russian Federation (5), Spain (3), Sweden (2), Syria (8), Türkiye (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (102: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah), Uzbekistan (1), Venezuela (1)
Total: 261 collections including 335 occurrences