Actinopteri - Scombriformes - Palaeorhynchidae
Parent taxon: Xiphioidea according to K. A. Monsch and A. F. Bannikov 2011
See also Bannikov 2014, Casier 1966, Danil'chenko 1960, Danil'chenko 1980, Fierstine 2006, Gottfried et al. 2012, Jordan 1963, Schultz 1987 and Szabo et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Hemingwayidae, Tetrapturidae
Subtaxa: Aglyptorhynchinae Aglyptorhynchus Enniskillenus Homorhynchus Palaeorhynchus Pseudotetrapturus
Type: Palaeorhynchum
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Austria (1 collection), Hungary (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Georgia (1)
• Oligocene of Azerbaijan (1), Georgia (1), Germany (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Switzerland (1), United States (4: South Carolina, Washington)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), Georgia (2), Iran (1), Italy (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (1: Virginia)
Total: 27 collections including 31 occurrences