Subfamily Acipenserinae Bonaparte 1838 (ray-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Acipenseriformes - Acipenseridae
Parent taxon: Acipenseridae according to J. S. Nelson et al. 2016
See also Grande and Bemis 1996 and Grande and Hilton 2006
Sister taxa: Acipenser, Boreiosturion, Husinae, Priscosturioninae, Propenser, Propenserinae, Psammorhynchinae, Pseudoscaphirhynchinae, Scaphirhynchinae
Subtaxa: Acipenserini
Type: Acipenser
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Walton-on-the-Naze, London Clay, Unit 8 (Eocene of the United Kingdom)