Actinopteri - Pleuronectiformes - Cynoglossidae
Full reference: D. S. Jordan. 1963. The Genera of Fishes and a Classification of Fishes. Stanford University Press 1-816
Parent taxon: Pleuronectoidei according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Fierstine et al. 2012, Jordan 1963 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Achiridae, Achiropsettidae, Bothidae, Citharidae, Paralichthyidae, Pleuronectidae, Poecilopsettidae, Rhombosoleidae, Samaridae, Scophthalmidae, Soleidae, Soleoidae
Subtaxa: Paraplagusia Symphurus
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (2: California, Louisiana collections)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Jamaica (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene of France (2), Panama (2), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene of France (1)
• Eocene of Indonesia (1)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence