Osteichthyes - Cypriniformes - Cyprinidae
Parent taxon: Cyprinoidei according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Betancur et al. 2013, Böhme 2008, Böhme 2010, Fierstine et al. 2012, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Leidy 1873, Mors et al. 2000, Nelson et al. 2016, Seymour 2004 and Woodward 1901
Sister taxa: Acheilognathidae, Danionidae, Gobionidae, Leptobarbidae, Leuciscidae, Paedocyprididae, Psilorhynchidae, Sundadanionidae, Tanichthyidae, Tincidae
Subtaxa: Acrocheilus Alisodon Amblypharyngodon Amyzon Aspius Barbinae Barbus Cultrinae Cyprininae Cyprinion Cyprinus Danioninae Ecocarpia Esox destructus Gila Gobio Gobioninae Hexapsephus Idadon Iquius Labeoninae Lavinia Leuciscinae Leuciscus Mylocyprinus Nemachilus Opsariichthyinae Orthodon Palaeoleuciscus Palaeotinca Phoxininae Planktophaga Protothymallus Ptychocheilus Puntius Rhodeus Siphateles Squaliobarbinae Thynichthys Tinca Xenocyprinae
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Bulgaria (1 collection), the Congo-Kinshasa (5), Czechia (1), Egypt (5), Ethiopia (1), Hungary (2), Japan (1), Kenya (17), Mexico (1), Niger (2), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), Sudan (1), Syria (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (11), United States (19: California, Michigan, Oregon , South Dakota, Virginia)
• Villafranchian of Slovakia (1), Spain (1)
• Blancan of United States (6: Arizona, California, Oregon)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Spain (3), Uganda (1)
• Pliocene to Holocene of Uganda (2)
• Pliocene of Armenia (1), China (1), Egypt (1), Ethiopia (1), Germany (1), India (1), Kenya (6), Moldova (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (7), Türkiye (1), Ukraine (1), United States (7: California, Nevada, Oregon)
• Turolian of Greece (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Uganda (2)
• Miocene of Austria (3), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (4), France (2), Germany (12), Greece (2), India (2), Italy (2), Japan (1), Kenya (7), Moldova (1), Nepal (1), Portugal (4), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (1), South Korea (1), Spain (3), Switzerland (9), Thailand (3), Tunisia (2), Türkiye (2), Ukraine (1), United States (5: Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Utah)
• Oligocene of China (1), Czechia (2), France (1), Germany (3), Kazakhstan (1), Romania (1), Switzerland (1), United States (1: Montana)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Oregon)
• Eocene of Canada (4: British Columbia), China (2), Pakistan (1), United States (3: Washington, Wyoming), Vietnam (2)
• Jurassic of Greenland (2)
Total: 218 collections including 307 occurrences