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Merlucciidae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	133671	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=133671

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Gadiformes : Merlucciidae

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
-	Paracanthomorphacea
-	Zeiogadaria
-	Gadariae
order	Gadiformes	Goodrich 1909
suborder	Gadoidei
family	Merlucciidae	Gill 1884

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Merlucciidae	family	belongs to Anacanthini	stated without evidence	Jordan, 1963
Merlucciidae	family	belongs to Gadoidea	stated without evidence	Casier, 1966
Merlucciidae	family	belongs to Gadiformes	stated without evidence	Schwarzhans, 2003
Merlucciidae	family	belongs to Gadoidei	stated with evidence	Betancur-R et al., 2013
Merlucciidae	family	belongs to Gadiformes	stated without evidence	Přikryl et al., 2016

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

7 (22%)

First Recorded Appearance

61.6 - 59.2 Ma
Paleocene

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Gadiformes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Gadiformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. Casier. 1966. Faune ichthyologique du London Clay

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Macruroninae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)
Merlucciinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Merlucciidarum ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	2	61.6 Ma Paleocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Merluccius genus	listed (PBDB)	32	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Palaeogadus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	20	61.6 Ma Paleocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Promerluccius ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Rhinocephalus genus	listed (PBDB)	4	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1884	Merlucciidae Gill
1963	Merlucciidae Jordan p. 664
1966	Merlucciidae Casier p. 318
2003	Merlucciidae Schwarzhans p. 52
2011	Merlucciidae Schwarzhans and Bratischko p. 91
2012	Merlucciidae Fierstine et al. p. 68
2013	Merlucciidae Betancur-R. et al.
2016	Merlucciidae P?ikryl et al.

References

Casier E. (1966) , Faune ichthyologique du London Clay, 1-510

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

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

Schwarzhans W., Bratischko A. (2011) The otoliths from the middle Paleocene of Luzanivka (Cherkasy district, Ukraine), Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 261 1, 83-110

Fierstine H. L., Huddleston R. W., et al (2012) Catalog of the Neogene bony fishes of California: A ystematic inventory of all published accounts, Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 159, 1-206

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

Přikryl T., Kania I., et al (2016) Synopsis of fossil fish fauna from the Hermanowa locality (Rupelian; Central Paratethys; Poland): current state of knowledge, Swiss Journal of Geoscience doi:10.1007/s00015-016-0216-5

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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