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Ostraciidae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	127968	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=127968

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Tetraodontiformes : Ostraciidae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
superclass	Actinopterygii
class	Actinopteri
subclass	Neopterygii
-	Teleosteomorpha	Arratia et al. 2004
-	Teleostei
-	Osteoglossocephalai
-	Clupeocephala	Patterson and Rosen 1977
-	Euteleosteomorpha
-	Neoteleostei	Rosen 1973
-	Eurypterygia
-	Ctenosquamata
-	Acanthomorphata
-	Euacanthomorphacea
-	Percomorphaceae
-	Percomorpharia
order	Tetraodontiformes	Berg 1940
suborder	Ostracioidei
family	Ostraciidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Ostraciidae	family	belongs to Ostracodermi	stated without evidence	Jordan, 1963
Ostraciidae	family	belongs to Tetraodontiformes	stated without evidence	Thurmond and Jones, 1981
Ostraciidae	family	belongs to Ostracioidei	stated with evidence	Betancur-R et al., 2013
Ostraciidae	family	belongs to Balistoidei	stated without evidence	Bannikov, 2014
Ostraciidae	family	belongs to Tetraodontiformes	stated without evidence	Carnevale et al., 2014
Ostraciidae	family	belongs to Ostracioidea	stated without evidence	Ebersole et al., 2019

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (33%)

First Recorded Appearance

72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Tetraodontiformes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Tetraodontiformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. T. Thurmond and D. E. Jones. 1981. Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Eolactoria ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Ostracion genus	listed (PBDB)		5	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1963	Ostraciidae Jordan p. 740
1981	Ostraciidae Thurmond and Jones p. 108
1998	Ostraciidae Weems p. 151
1999	Ostraciidae Weems p. 71
2003	Ostraciidae Schwarzhans p. 88
2013	Ostraciidae Betancur-R. et al.
2014	Ostraciidae Bannikov p. 30
2014	Ostraciidae Carnevale et al. p. 45
2019	Ostraciidae Ebersole et al. p. 180

References

Thurmond J. T., Jones D. E. (1981) , Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama, 1-244

Jordan D. S. (1963) The Genera of Fishes and a Classification of Fishes, Stanford University Press, 1-816

Weems R. E. (1999) Part 4. Actinopterygian Fishes from the Fisher/Sullivan Site, Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Publication 152, 53-100

Schwarzhans W. (2003) Fish otoliths from the Paleocene of Denmark, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 2, 1-94

Betancur-R. R., Broughton R. E., et al (2013) The tree of life and a new classification of bony fishes, PLOS Currents Tree of Life doi:10.1371/currents.tol.53ba26640df0ccaee75bb165c8c26288

Bannikov A. F. (2014) The systematic composition of the Eocene actinopterygian fish fauna from Monte Bolca, northern Italy, as known to date, Studi e ricerche sui giacimenti terziari di Bolca, XV - Miscellanea paleontologica 12, 23-34

Carnevale G., Bannikov A. F., et al (2014) The Pesciara-Monte Postale Fossil-Lagerstätte: 2. Fishes and other vertebrates, Rendiconti della Società Paleontologica Italiana 4, 37-63

Ebersole J. A., Cicimurri D. J., et al (2019) Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths, European Journal of Taxonomy 585, 1-274 doi:10.5852/ejt.2019.585

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