Osteichthyes - Acipenseriformes - Acipenseridae

Alternative spelling: Scaphirhynchini

Parent taxon: Acipenseridae according to J. S. Nelson et al. 2016

See also Grande and Bemis 1996 and Grande and Hilton 2006

Sister taxa: Acipenser, Acipenserinae, Boreiosturion, Husinae, Priscosturioninae, Propenser, Propenser hewletti, Propenserinae, Psammorhynchinae, Pseudoscaphirhynchinae

Subtaxa: Protoscaphirhynchus Pseudoscaphirhynchus Scaphirhynchus

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Type: Scaphirhynchus

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Bear Creek/Rock Creek (UMMP) (Cretaceous of Montana)

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