Osteichthyes - Lutjaniformes - Sciaenidae
Synonym: Ioscionidae
Parent taxon: Lutjaniformes according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Bannikov et al. 2009, Cicimurri et al. 2025, Cicimurri et al. 2022, David 1943, Ebersole et al. 2019, Fierstine et al. 2012 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Aplodinotus Argyrosomus Carnevalella Carnevalellinae Caucasisciaena Cilus Ekokenia Fisherichthys Ioscion Pogonias Sciaena Sciaenops Stelliferinae
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Brazil (4), Canada (1: Quebec), Chile (1), Portugal (1), United States (17: Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Chile (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of United States (2: Florida, North Carolina)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Chile (1), Czechia (2), Denmark (1), Germany (2), Hungary (1), Italy (4), Kazakhstan (1), Malta (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Taiwan (1), United States (18: California, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Nebraska, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), Hungary (1), United States (11: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Nigeria (2), United States (30: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Italy (10), Spain (1)
Total: 123 collections including 175 occurrences