Family Sciaenidae Cuvier 1828 (ray-finned fish)

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 Ekokenia Fisherichthys Ioscion Pogonias Sciaena Sciaenops Stelliferinae

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Brazil (3), Canada (1: Quebec), United States (16: Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia)

• 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), 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 (4: Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina)

• Eocene of Nigeria (2), United States (13: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia)

• Cretaceous of Italy (10)

Total: 91 collections including 116 occurrences

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