Osteichthyes - Uranoscopiformes - Uranoscopidae
Parent taxon: Uranoscopiformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Carnevale et al. 2011, Carnevale and Godfrey 2018, Casier 1966, Jordan 1963 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Owstoniidae, Pinguipedidae
Subtaxa: Astroscopus Kathetostoma Uranoscopidarum Uranoscopus Xenocephalus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Taiwan (1 collection), United States (1: Virginia)
• Pliocene of United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene of Czechia (1), France (1), New Zealand (5), Taiwan (1), United States (1: Maryland)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (2)
• Eocene of India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), New Zealand (2), United States (5: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia)
Total: 24 collections including 25 occurrences