Family Cynoglossidae Jordan 1963 (flatfish)

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

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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

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