Family Belonidae Bonaparte 1835 (ray-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Beloniformes - Belonidae
Parent taxon: Belonoidei according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Arambourg 1925, Betancur et al. 2013, Carnevale and Godfrey 2018, Domning and Clark 1993, Jordan 1963 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Exocoetidae, Hemiramphidae, Zenarchopteridae
Subtaxa: Belone Belonidarum Platybelone Scomberesox
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Marshall Islands (1 collection), Turks and Caicos Islands (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Greece (3), Italy (4), Jamaica (2), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Italy (4), United States (3: California)
• Eocene of United States (2: Louisiana)
Total: 24 collections including 27 occurrences