†family Ophididae (ray-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Ophidiiformes - Ophididae
Parent taxon: Ophidiiformes according to D. Nolf and D. Dockery 1993
See also Carnevale and Godfrey 2018 and Schwarzhans et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Benthocometes, Brotula, Bythitoidei, Dannevigia, Ophidioidei, Parabrotulidae, Rhodichthyidae
Subtaxa: Bauzaia Brotulinae Preophidion Signata
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Italy (1 collection)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Eocene of Germany (1), India (1), Indonesia (1), United States (33: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia)
• Paleocene of Ukraine (1)
• Tertiary of United States (1: Mississippi)
Total: 41 collections including 83 occurrences