Full reference: O. G. Costa. 1857. Descrizione di alcuni pesci fossili del Libano. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze 2:97-112
Parent taxon: Beryciformes according to K. Dietze 2009
See also Bardack 1976, Patterson 1964, Patterson 1993 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Africentrum, Anoplogastridae, Barbourisiidae, Berycidae, Berycoidei, Berycomorus, Berycopsis, Beryx dalmaticus, Beryx subovatus, Brazosiella, Cetomimidae, Cryptoberyx, Ctenoberyx, Dinopterygoidei, Diretmidae, Gibberichthyidae, Hispidoberycidae, Holocentrites, Holocentroidea, Holocentroidei, Inocentrus, Kryptophanaron, Melamphaidae, Monocentridae, Pattersonoberyx, Plectrypops, Plesioberyx, Polymixioidei, Poromitra, Pseudholocentrum, Pseudomonocentrididae, Quaesitoberycidae, Rondeletiidae, Sargocentron, Scianenuropsis, Stephanoberycidae, Trachichthyoidei
Subtaxa: Omosoma garretti Omosoma intermedium Omosoma monasterii Omosoma pulchellum Omosoma sahelalmae Omosoma simum
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Germany (1 collection), Lebanon (2), United States (3: Kansas)
Total: 6 collections including 7 occurrences
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