Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes
Parent taxon: Pycnodontiformes according to J. R. Nursall 1996
See also Casier 1966 and Forey et al. 2003
Sister taxa: Acrorhinichthys, Akromystax, Arcodonichthys, Coccodontoidea, Grimmenodon, Gyrodontoidei, Gyronchus, Ichthyoceras, Paramicrodon, Phacodus, Polygyrodus, Tibetodus, Trewavasia, Uranoplosus
Subtaxa: Brembodontidae Eomesodon Pycnodontidae
Ecology: nektonic durophage-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (3: Florida, Texas collections)
• Eocene of Belgium (4), Egypt (1), France (1), India (6), Italy (1), Mali (1), Pakistan (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (7: Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia)
• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1), Mali (2)
• Paleocene of Mali (1), Mexico (2), Niger (1), Saudi Arabia (5), Spain (1), Togo (1), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Mali (2), United States (1: Arkansas)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (4), Argentina (2), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Bolivia (2), Brazil (7), Canada (2: Saskatchewan), the Congo-Brazzaville (1), Croatia (2), Denmark (1), Egypt (5), France (9), Germany (4), Greece (1), India (15), Italy (11), Jordan (1), Lebanon (18), Libya (1), Madagascar (1), Mali (2), Mexico (6), Morocco (7), Niger (10), Palestinian Territory (1), Portugal (2), Romania (1), Slovenia (3), Spain (9), Sweden (5), Switzerland (10), Syria (5), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (76: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (4), Venezuela (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of France (3), Morocco (1)
• Jurassic of Belgium (1), Ethiopia (1), France (9), Germany (2), India (1), Poland (1), Portugal (3), the United Kingdom (10)
• Triassic of Austria (3), France (1), Hungary (1), Italy (3), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 327 collections including 415 occurrences