Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Ariidae
Parent taxon: Siluroidei according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Carnevale and Godfrey 2018, Cione 1987, Cvancara and Hoganson 1993, Ebersole et al. 2019, El-Sayed et al. 2017, Jordan 1963, Lundberg 1997, Nelson et al. 2016, Nolf and Dockery 1993, Nolf and Dockery 1990, Purdy et al. 2001, Sahni and Mishra 1975, Schwarzhans and Bratischko 2011 and Weems 1999
Sister taxa: Ailiidae, Akysidae, Amblycipitidae, Amphiliidae, Anchariidae, Arioidea, Auchenipteridae, Austroglanididae, Bagridae, Cetopsidae, Chacidae, Clariidae, Clarioidea, Claroteidae, Cranoglanididae, Doradoidea, Heptapteridae, Heteropneustidae, Horabagridae, Hypsidoroidea, Ictaluridae, Malapteruridae, Mochokidae, Pangasiidae, Pimelodidae, Plotosidae, Pseudopimelodidae, Ritidae, Schilbeidae, Siluridae, Siluriodae, Sisoridae, Sisoroidea
Subtaxa: Ariidarum Ariopsis Arius Bagre Cantarius Cathorops Galeichthys Plotosus Qarmoutus Tachysurus Vorhisia
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Kenya (1 collection), New Zealand (1), United States (2: Florida, Georgia), Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene of Angola (1), Jamaica (1), New Zealand (2), South Africa (3), United States (2: Florida, North Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Hemphillian of Costa Rica (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chad (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (2), Bolivia (1), Brazil (2), Colombia (2), the Czech Republic (1), Italy (1), Mexico (1), Panama (3), Peru (4), United States (1: North Carolina), Venezuela (7)
• Neogene of Indonesia (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Barbados (5), Belgium (1), Egypt (1), Germany (1), India (5), Nigeria (4), Pakistan (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (16: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia), Western Sahara (1)
• Paleocene of Denmark (4), Greenland (1), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), India (1), United States (13: Maryland, North Dakota)
Total: 107 collections including 136 occurrences