Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Chlorophthalmidae
Parent taxon: Alepisauroidei according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Jordan 1963, Nelson et al. 2016, Nolf and Dockery 1993, Schwarzhans 2003 and Schwarzhans and Bratischko 2011
Sister taxa: Alepisauroidea, Aspidopleuridae, Aspidopleurus, Bathysauridae, Evermannellidae, Giganturidae, Ipnopidae, Notosudidae, Sudidae
Subtaxa: Bathypterois Chlorophthalmus Iniomus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (2 collections), Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Greece (1)
• Miocene of New Zealand (1)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (6)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (3)
• Eocene of Germany (1), United States (1: California)
• Paleocene of Denmark (4), Greenland (1), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Alabama)
Total: 23 collections each including a single occurrence