Osteichthyes - Pycnodontiformes
Parent taxon: Pycnodontoidei according to F. J. Poyato-Ariza and S. Wenz 2002
See also Gardiner 1960
Sister taxon: Apomesodon
Subtaxa: Pycnodontidae
Ecology: nektonic durophage-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (3: Florida, Texas collections)
• Eocene of Belgium (4), Egypt (1), France (1), India (6), Italy (4), Mali (1), Pakistan (3), Qatar (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (7: Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia)
• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1), Mali (2)
• Paleocene of Mali (1), Mexico (2), Niger (1), Saudi Arabia (5), Spain (1), Togo (1), United States (2: New Jersey, South Carolina)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Mali (1)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (4), Argentina (2), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Bolivia (2), Brazil (7), Bulgaria (1), Canada (2: Saskatchewan), the Congo-Brazzaville (1), Croatia (2), Denmark (1), Egypt (5), France (11), Germany (6), Greece (1), India (18), Israel (4), Italy (11), Jordan (1), Lebanon (13), Libya (1), Madagascar (1), Mali (3), Mexico (8), Morocco (7), the Netherlands (2), Niger (10), Nigeria (1), Palestine (1), Poland (1), Portugal (2), Romania (1), Senegal (1), Slovenia (4), Spain (14), Sweden (5), Switzerland (10), Syria (5), Thailand (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (14), United States (90: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (4), Venezuela (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of France (3)
• Jurassic of Ethiopia (1), France (10), Germany (3), Poland (1), Portugal (3), the United Kingdom (8)
Total: 368 collections including 470 occurrences