Osteichthyes - Trachichthyiformes - Trachichthyidae
Synonym: Hoplopterygidae
Parent taxon: Trachichthyiformes according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Applegate 1970, Betancur et al. 2013, Casier 1966, Danil'chenko 1960, Jordan 1963, Lin et al. 2017, Nelson et al. 2016, Nolf and Dockery 1993, Nolf and Dockery 1990, Patterson 1964, Schwarzhans et al. 2017 and Schwarzhans and Nielsen 2021
Sister taxon: Anomalopidae
Subtaxa: Egregioberyx Eregioberyx Gephyroberyx Hoplostethus Lissoberycinae Lissoberyx Notoberyx Optivus Paratrachichthys Trachichthyidarum
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (2 collections), New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Italy (2), New Zealand (1)
• Miocene of Chile (1), France (5), Italy (8), New Zealand (14)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Czechia (1), France (2), Germany (2), New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (1), Germany (1), New Zealand (3)
• Paleocene of Denmark (4), Greenland (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (2), United States (2: Alabama, Maryland)
Total: 58 collections including 64 occurrences