Actinopteri - Acanthuriformes - Sciaenidae
Parent taxon: Sciaenoidei according to D. J. Cicimurri et al. 2022
See also Bannikov et al. 2009, Ebersole et al. 2019 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Argyrosomus Caucasisciaena Ekokenia Fisherichthys Pogonias Sciaena Sciaenops Stelliferinae
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Brazil (3), United States (11: Florida, Georgia, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Pliocene of United States (2: Florida, North Carolina)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Chile (1), the Czech Republic (2), Denmark (1), Germany (2), Hungary (1), Italy (4), Kazakhstan (1), Malta (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (12: Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), Hungary (1), United States (3: Louisiana, South Carolina)
• Eocene of Nigeria (2), United States (14: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia)
• Cretaceous of Italy (10)
Total: 79 collections including 97 occurrences