Actinopteri - Perciformes - Sparidae
Parent taxon: Sparinae according to E. Steurbaut 1984
See also Agassiz 1835, Arambourg 1927, Gaemers 1984, Nolf and Steurbaut 1983, Sepkoski 2002 and Steurbaut 1979
Sister taxa: Liognathus, Oblada, Pagrosomus
Subtaxa: Pagellus acarne Pagellus albuquerquae Pagellus concavus Pagellus coupei Pagellus gregarius Pagellus leptosomus Pagellus leptosteus Pagellus libanicus Pagellus marbellensis Pagellus stenoura
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greece (3 collections), Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Greece (2)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (2), Greece (1), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (1), Spain (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Greece (1)
• Oligocene of Belgium (1), Hungary (1), New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of France (1), Nigeria (2)
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (2)
Total: 25 collections including 31 occurrences
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