Osteichthyes - Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
Synonym: Belonorhynchidae Woodward 1888
Parent taxon: Saurichthyiformes according to A. Tintori et al. 2016
See also Beltan 1968, Beltan 1972, Beltan 1984, Cartanyà 1999, Gardiner 1960, Jordan 1963, Lehman 1952, Mutter et al. 2008, Nelson 2006, Nelson et al. 2016, Raymond 1925, Sytchevskaya 1999 and Tintori et al. 2014
Sister taxon: Yelangichthyidae
Subtaxa: Belonorhynchus Brevisaurichthys Saurichthys Saurorhynchus Stenoprotome Systolichthys
Type: Saurichthys
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Canada (3: Alberta), France (1), Germany (20), the United Kingdom (10)
• Triassic of Australia (4), Austria (5), Belgium (5), Canada (6: Alberta, British Columbia), China (6), France (14), Germany (10), Greenland (3), Hungary (2), India (4), Israel (1), Italy (14), Kyrgyzstan (2), Luxembourg (1), Madagascar (6), Nepal (1), the Netherlands (2), Norway (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (4), Saudi Arabia (3), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (3), South Africa (1), Spain (12), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (16), Switzerland (39), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (5), United States (5: Arizona, Idaho, Nevada)
• Permian of China (1), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 218 collections including 271 occurrences