Family Epigonidae (ray-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Acanthopterygii - Epigonidae
Parent taxon: Percomorpharia according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Nelson et al. 2016 and Schwarzhans and Bratischko 2011
Sister taxa: Acropomatidae, Caesionidae, Caproidae, Chaetodontidae, Cirrhitiformes, Howellidae, Lateolabracidae, Polyprionidae, Sciaenidae
Subtaxa: Epigonidarum Epigonus
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (2 collections)
• Pliocene of Greece (1), New Zealand (2)
• Miocene of France (3), Italy (5), New Zealand (4)
• Oligocene of France (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Whaingaroan of New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of France (4), New Zealand (5)
• Paleocene of Ukraine (1)
Total: 30 collections including 36 occurrences