Family Gadidae Rafinesque 1810 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Gadiformes - Gadidae

Parent taxon: Gadoidei according to R. Betancur et al. 2013

See also Arambourg 1925, Constantin 1999, Danil'chenko 1960, David 1943, Fierstine et al. 2012, Jordan 1963, Long and Stilwell 2000, Nelson et al. 2016, Pauca 1931, Schwarzhans 1978, Schwarzhans 2003 and Weiler 1938

Sister taxa: Bregmacerotidae, Lotidae, Merlucciidae, Moridae, Phycidae

Subtaxa: Arnoldina Arnoldites Brosmius Gadiculus Gadidarum Gadinae Gadus Gaidropsarus Melanogrammus Merlangiogadus Merlangius Microgadus Micromesistius Morrhua Palaeomolva Palimphemus Phycinae Progadus Protocolliolus Ranicipinae Theragra Trisopterus Urophycis

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Canada (3: British Columbia, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador collections), Estonia (1), Greece (7), Greenland (7), Italy (8), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (2), Norway (2), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (3), United States (11: California, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, Virginia)

• Mangapanian of New Zealand (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)

• Pliocene of Greece (1), Italy (11), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1), United States (4: California, North Carolina)

• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (2), Austria (1), Belgium (2), the Czech Republic (3), Denmark (1), France (4), Germany (2), Greece (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (7), Kazakhstan (2), New Zealand (16), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1), Ukraine (1)

• Waitakian of New Zealand (2)

• Oligocene of Belgium (1), Germany (3), United States (2: California)

• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Belgium (2), Germany (1), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (9)

• Paleocene of Denmark (3), Greenland (1)

Total: 144 collections including 211 occurrences

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