Actinopteri - Gadiformes - Merlucciidae
Parent taxon: Gadoidei according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Casier 1966, Constantin 1999, Fierstine et al. 2012, Jordan 1963, Nelson et al. 2016, Přikryl et al. 2016, Schwarzhans 2003 and Schwarzhans and Bratischko 2011
Sister taxa: Bregmacerotidae, Gadidae, Lotidae, Moridae, Phycidae
Subtaxa: Macrurulus Merlucciidarum Merlucciinae Merluccius Palaeogadus Promerluccius Rhinocephalus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (4 collections), Spain (1), United States (4: California, Oregon)
• Mangapanian of New Zealand (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Italy (4), New Zealand (1), United States (3: California, North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: California)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (2), Austria (1), Azerbaijan (2), Belgium (1), the Czech Republic (3), Germany (2), Italy (7), New Zealand (1), United States (4: Virginia)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Georgia (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Azerbaijan (2), Belgium (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Germany (2), Hungary (2), Poland (2), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (1)
• Eocene of Germany (1), New Zealand (10), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (7)
• Paleocene of Denmark (4), Greenland (1), New Zealand (1), Ukraine (1)
Total: 90 collections including 105 occurrences