Actinopteri - Acanthomorphata - Sciaenidae
Alternative spelling: Sciaenoidei
Synonym: Scienoides
Parent taxon: Percomorpharia according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Hay 1902
Sister taxa: Acanthuriformes, Acropomatidae, Caesionidae, Caproidae, Centrarchiformes, Centrogenyidae, Chaetodontidae, Cirrhitiformes, Emmelichthyidae, Enoplosidae, Ephippiformes, Epigonidae, Gerreidae, Haemulidae, Howellidae, Kuhliidae, Kyphosidae, Labriformes, Lateolabracidae, Leiognathidae, Lobotidae, Lophiiformes, Lutjanidae, Malacanthidae, Monodactylidae, Moronidae, Oplegnathidae, Pempheriformes, Percichthyidae, Perciformes, Polyprionidae, Pomacanthidae, Priacanthidae, Scatophagidae, Siganidae, Sillaginidae, Sinipercidae, Spariformes, Terapontidae, Tetraodontiformes, Uranoscopiformes
Subtaxa: Pseudoeleginus
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection), Brazil (1), Canada (1: Quebec), France (1), United States (12: California, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, Virginia)
• Pliocene of Colombia (1), Ecuador (1), Jamaica (1), United States (4: California, Florida, North Carolina)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Florida)
• Neogene of Indonesia (2)
• Miocene of Argentina (3), Belgium (1), Chile (1), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (2), Germany (5), Italy (9), Kazakhstan (1), Mexico (2), Panama (8), Peru (1), United States (10: California, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), United States (13: Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi)
• Eocene of India (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (18: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas)
• Tertiary of United States (1: Mississippi)
• Cretaceous of Canada (4: Alberta, Saskatchewan), United States (15: Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota, Wyoming)
Total: 129 collections including 204 occurrences