Suborder Gadoidei (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Gadiformes

Alternative spelling: Gadoidea

Parent taxon: Gadiformes according to R. Betancur et al. 2013

See also Casier 1966, Constantin 1999 and Frizzell and Dante 1965

Sister taxa: Bathygadidae, Brosme, Euclichthyidae, Gaidropsaridae, Lota, Macrouroidei, Macruroididae, Macruronidae, Maorigadus, Melanonidae, Merluccidae, Muraenolepididae, Paratichthys, Pollachius, Pseudoraniceps, Ranicipitidae, Rankinian, Squalogadus, Trachyrhynchus, Trichurides

Subtaxa: Bregmacerotidae Gadidae Lotidae Merlucciidae Moridae Phycidae

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Haweran of New Zealand (2 collections)

• Quaternary of Canada (3: British Columbia, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador), Estonia (1), Greece (10), Greenland (7), Italy (9), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (7), Norway (2), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (3), United States (13: California, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, Virginia)

• Mangapanian of New Zealand (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)

• Pliocene of Cyprus (1), Ecuador (1), Greece (11), Italy (12), Jamaica (1), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (3), United States (4: California, North Carolina)

• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: California)

• Miocene of Algeria (5), Angola (1), Australia (2), Austria (2), Azerbaijan (2), Belgium (2), the Czech Republic (4), Denmark (1), France (5), Gabon (1), Germany (2), Greece (11), India (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (19), Kazakhstan (2), Malta (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (44), Panama (2), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1), Ukraine (1), United States (5: California, Virginia), Venezuela (1)

• Waitakian of New Zealand (11)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Georgia (1), the Russian Federation (1)

• Oligocene of Australia (1), Azerbaijan (2), Belgium (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Georgia (1), Germany (4), Hungary (5), New Zealand (5), Poland (2), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (2), United States (4: California, Louisiana, Mississippi)

• Eocene of Antarctica (3), Australia (4), Belgium (2), France (5), Georgia (1), Germany (1), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), New Zealand (13), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (16), United States (12: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland, Texas, Virginia)

• Paleocene of Denmark (4), Greenland (1), New Zealand (1), Ukraine (1)

Total: 333 collections including 594 occurrences

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