Infraorder Cottales (perch-like fish)
Parent taxon: Cottioidei according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
Sister taxa: Anoplopomatales, Gasterosteales, Zoarcales
Subtaxa: Agonidae Cottidae Cyclopteridae Hexagrammidae Liparidae Psychrolutidae
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (1 collection), Greenland (1), United States (6: California, Oregon)
• Pliocene of United States (2: California, North Carolina)
• Miocene of Japan (1), New Zealand (11), the Russian Federation (1), United States (2: California)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of New Zealand (2)
Total: 28 collections including 32 occurrences