Editing Characiformes (section)

=== Fossil taxa ===

* Order '''Characiformes'''
** Genus †''[[Eotexachara]]'' <small>Wick, 2021</small> ([[Late Cretaceous]] of Texas, US)<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal |last=Wick |first=Steven L. |date=2021-12-01 |title=New early Campanian characiform fishes (Otophysi: Characiformes) from West Texas support a South American origin for known Late Cretaceous characiforms from North America |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S019566712100241X |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=128 |pages=104993 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104993 |issn=0195-6671}}</ref>
** Genus †''[[Primuluchara]]'' <small>Wick, 2021</small> (Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada and Texas, US)''<ref name=":4" />''
** Suborder Citharinoidei
*** Genus †''[[Eocitharinus]]'' <small>Murray, 2002</small> ([[middle Eocene]] of Tanzania)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Murray |first=Alison M. |date=2003-09-12 |title=A new Eocene citharinoid fish (Ostariophysi: Characiformes) from Tanzania |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1671/1854 |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=501–507 |doi=10.1671/1854 |issn=0272-4634}}</ref>
** Suborder [[Characoidei]]
*** Genus †''[[Tiupampichthys]]'' <small>Gayet & Jegu, 2003</small> (latest Cretaceous to [[late Paleocene]] of Bolivia<small>)</small><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gayet |first=Mireille |last2=Jégu |first2=Michel |last3=Bocquentin |first3=Jean |last4=Negri |first4=Francisco R. |date=2003-04-11 |title=New characoids from the Upper Cretaceous and Paleocene of Bolivia and the Mio-Pliocene of Brazil: phylogenetic position and paleobiogeographic implications |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1671/0272-4634%282003%2923%5B28%3ANCFTUC%5D2.0.CO%3B2 |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=28–46 |doi=10.1671/0272-4634(2003)23[28:NCFTUC]2.0.CO;2 |issn=0272-4634}}</ref>
*** Superfamily [[Characoidea]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Terán |first=Guillermo E |last2=Benitez |first2=Mauricio F |last3=Mirande |first3=J Marcos |date=2020-04-11 |title=Opening the Trojan horse: phylogeny of Astyanax, two new genera and resurrection of Psalidodon (Teleostei: Characidae) |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa019 |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |doi=10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa019 |issn=0024-4082}}</ref>
**** Genus †''[[Bryconetes]]'' <small>Weiss, Malabarba & Malabarba, 2014</small> ([[Priabonian|Late Eocene]]/[[Early Oligocene]] of Brazil)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Weiss |first=Fernanda E. |last2=Malabarba |first2=Maria Claudia |last3=Malabarba |first3=Luiz R. |date=2014 |title=A new stem fossil characid (Teleostei: Ostariophysi) from the Eocene-Oligocene of southeastern Brazil |url=https://www.scielo.br/j/ni/a/LvvWysnK97JkGWmjTynns5R/?format=html&lang=en&stop=next |journal=Neotropical Ichthyology |language=en |volume=12 |pages=439–450 |doi=10.1590/1982-0224-20140072 |issn=1679-6225}}</ref>
**** Genus †''[[Paleotetra]]'' <small>Weiss, Malabarba & Malabarba, 2012</small> (Late Eocene/Early Oligocene of Brazil)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Weiss |first=Fernanda E. |last2=Malabarba |first2=Luiz R. |last3=Malabarba |first3=Maria Claudia |date=2012-03-01 |title=Phylogenetic relationships of Paleotetra, a new characiform fish (Ostariophysi) with two new species from the Eocene-Oligocene of south-eastern Brazil |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2011.565082 |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=73–86 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2011.565082 |issn=1477-2019}}</ref>