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Hemiramphidae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	266182	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=266182

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Beloniformes : Hemiramphidae

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
-	Carangimorpharia
-	Ovalentariae
superorder	Atherinomorphae
order	Beloniformes
suborder	Exocoetoidei
family	Hemiramphidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Hemiramphidae	family	belongs to Synentognathi	stated without evidence	David, 1943
Hemiramphidae	family	belongs to Beloniformes	stated without evidence	Gaemers, 1984
Hemiramphidae	family	belongs to Atheriniformes	stated without evidence	Schwarzhans, 2007
Hemiramphidae	family	belongs to Beloniformes	stated without evidence	Fierstine et al., 2012
Hemiramphidae	family	belongs to Exocoetoidei	stated with evidence	Betancur-R et al., 2013
Hemiramphidae	family	belongs to Beloniformes	stated without evidence	Bannikov, 2014

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

6 (35%)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 47.8 Ma
Eocene

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Beloniformes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Beloniformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. Betancur-R., R. E. Broughton, and E. O. Wiley, K. Carpenter, J. A. López, C. Li, N. I. Holcroft, D. Arcila, M. Sanciangco, J. C. Cureton, F. Zhang, T. Buser, M. A. Campbell, J. A. Ballesteros, A. Roa-Varon, S. Willis, W. C. Borden, T. Rowley, P. C. Reneau, G. Lu, T. Grande, G. Arratia, G. 2013. The tree of life and a new classification of bony fishes. PLOS Currents Tree of Life

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ectomirhamphus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Eoexocoetus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	6	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Euleptorhamphus genus	listed (PBDB)	2	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Hemiramphus genus	listed (PBDB)	3	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Hemirhamphidarum ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	2	47.8 Ma Eocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Hyporhamphus genus	listed (PBDB)	3	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Rogenites ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Zelosis ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1943	Hemirhamphidae David p. 124
1963	Hemiramphidae Jordan p. 661
1984	Hemiramphidae Gaemers p. 37
2007	Hemirhamphidae Schwarzhans p. 338
2012	Hemiramphidae Fierstine et al. p. 84
2013	Hemiramphidae Betancur-R. et al.
2014	Hemiramphidae Bannikov p. 26
2014	Hemiramphidae Carnevale et al. p. 42
2016	Hemiramphidae P?ikryl et al.

References

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

David L. R. (1943) Miocene Fishes of Southern California, Geological Society of America Special Paper 43, 1-187

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

Gaemers P. A. M. (1984) Fish otoliths from the Bassevelde Sand (Late Tongrian) of Ruisbroek, Belgium, and the Stratigraphy of the Early Oligocene of Belgium, Mededelingen van de Werkgroep voor Tertiaire en Kwartaire Geologie 21 1, 13-57

Schwarzhans W. (2007) The otoliths from the middle Eocene of Osteroden near Bramsche, north-western Germany, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 244 3, 299-369 doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2007/0244-0299

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

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

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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