Suborder Acipenseroidei (ray-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Acipenseriformes
Parent taxon: Acipenseriformes according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Casier 1966, Grande and Bemis 1996, Grande and Hilton 2006 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Acipenseridae, Acipenseriodei, Acipenseristomi, Chondrosteoidei, Eochondrosteus, Errolichthyidae, Peipiaosteoidei, Polyodontidae, Saurichthidae
Subtaxa: Accipenseridae
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Pocsesti (Miocene of Moldova)