Suborder Ostracioidei (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes

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

Sister taxa: Alutera, Aracanidae, Atlanticopristis, Balistoidei, Bolcabalistidae, Cretazeus, Eodiodon, Eoplectidae, Indotrigonodon, Kyrtogymnodon, Moloidei, Oligodiodon, Ostracioidea, Pisdurodon, Plectocretacicoidei, Plectocretacicus, Protobalistidae, Tetraodontoidei, Triacanthodoidei, Triacanthoidei, Trigonodontoidae, Triodontidae, Zignoichthyidae

Subtaxa: Ostraciidae

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the Marshall Islands (4 collections), Turks and Caicos Islands (1), United States (1: Georgia)

• Pliocene of United States (1: Florida)

• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (1)

• Eocene of Belgium (2), Italy (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (10: Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia)

• Paleocene of Denmark (1), United States (2: South Carolina, Virginia)

• Cretaceous of India (1)

Total: 27 collections including 29 occurrences

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