Actinopteri - Uranoscopiformes - Uranoscopidae
Parent taxon: Uranoscopiformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013
See also Carnevale et al. 2011, Carnevale and Godfrey 2018, Casier 1966, Jordan 1963 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Opisthognathidae, Owstoniidae, Pinguipedidae
Subtaxa: Astroscopus Kathetostoma Uranoscopidarum Uranoscopus Xenocephalus
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (1: Virginia collection)
• Pliocene of United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene of the Czech Republic (1), France (1), New Zealand (5), United States (1: Maryland)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (2)
• Eocene of India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), New Zealand (2), United States (1: Louisiana)
Total: 18 collections including 19 occurrences