Osteichthyes - Acipenseriformes - Acipenseridae
Parent taxon: Acipenseriformes according to E. J. Hilton and L. Grande 2022
See also Applegate 1970, Betancur et al. 2013, Carnevale and Godfrey 2018, Estes 1964, Estes 1969, Fierstine et al. 2012, Grande and Bemis 1996, Grande and Hilton 2006, Hay 1902, Murray et al. 2023, Nelson et al. 2016, Peng et al. 2001, Purdy et al. 2001 and Thurmond and Jones 1981
Sister taxa: Acipenseriodei, Acipenseristomi, Chondrosteoidei, Eochondrosteus, Errolichthyidae, Polyodontidae, Saurichthidae
Subtaxa: Acipenser Acipenserinae Boreiosturion Husinae Priscosturioninae Propenser Propenserinae Psammorhynchinae Pseudoscaphirhynchinae Scaphirhynchinae
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (2: Quebec collections), the Netherlands (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (5: California, Oregon, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Moldova (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)
• Miocene of Belgium (1), Denmark (1), the Netherlands (1), Panama (1), Ukraine (1), United States (6: Maryland, Nebraska, Virginia)
• Oligocene of Kazakhstan (1)
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (7), United States (2: Virginia, Wyoming)
• Paleocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), United States (7: Illinois, Montana, North Dakota)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Canada (36: Alberta, Saskatchewan), the Russian Federation (1), United States (40: Alabama, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming)
Total: 122 collections including 124 occurrences