Actinopteri - Ophidiiformes - Bythitidae
Alternative spellings: Dinematichthyidae, Dinematichthyini
Parent taxon: Bythitidae according to W. Schwarzhans and A. Bratischko 2011
See also Gaemers 1984, Nolf and Bajpai 1992, Schwarzhans 2019 and Steurbaut 1984
Sister taxa: Aphyoninae, Bellotia, Brosmophycinae, Brosmophyciops, Brosmophycis, Bythitidarum, Bythitinae, Dinematichthys, Diplacanthopoma, Grammonus, Propteridium, Timorichthys
Subtaxa: Aotearichthys Dermatopsis Dipulus Ogilbia Otarionichthys
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore-parasite
Distribution:
• Quaternary of New Zealand (1 collection)
• Waitakian of New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), France (1)
• Eocene of France (1), Indonesia (1), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (3)
• Paleocene of Ukraine (1)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence