Order Carangiformes (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Carangiformes

Parent taxon: Carangimorphariae according to R. Betancur et al. 2013

See also Jordan 1963 and Nelson et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Centropomidae, Istiophoriformes, Menidae, Pleuronectiformes, Polynemidae, Toxotidae

Subtaxa: Carangidae Coryphaenidae Echeneidae Nematistiidae Rachycentridae

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Ecology: nektonic omnivore

Distribution:

• Haweran of New Zealand (1 collection)

• Quaternary of Greece (7), Italy (3), Japan (1), the Marshall Islands (2), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (4: California, Florida, Louisiana)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)

• Pliocene of Cyprus (1), Greece (2), Italy (6), United States (2: Florida, North Carolina)

• Hemphillian of United States (1: Florida)

• Miocene of Algeria (4), Austria (1), the Czech Republic (3), France (4), Greece (1), India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (7), Kazakhstan (1), Mexico (2), New Zealand (1), Panama (3), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), United States (7: California, Maryland), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Georgia (1), the Russian Federation (1)

• Oligocene of Belgium (1), Germany (2), Poland (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1)

• Eocene of Belgium (1), Italy (1), New Zealand (1), Turkmenistan (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: California, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia)

• Paleocene of Denmark (2), Greenland (1)

Total: 98 collections including 128 occurrences

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