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Leiognathidae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	266300	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=266300

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Leiognathidae

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
family	Leiognathidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Leiognathidae	family	belongs to Percoidei	stated without evidence	Danil'chenko, 1960
Leiognathidae	family	belongs to Carangiformes	stated without evidence	Jordan, 1963
Leiognathidae	family	belongs to Perciformes	stated without evidence	Danil'chenko, 1980
Leiognathidae	family	belongs to Percoidei	stated without evidence	Schwarzhans and Bratischko, 2011
Leiognathidae	family	belongs to Percomorpharia	stated with evidence	Betancur-R et al., 2013
Leiognathidae	family	belongs to Perciformes	stated without evidence	Carnevale et al., 2014
Leiognathidae	family	belongs to Percoidei	stated without evidence	Bannikov, 2014

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (33%)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 47.8 Ma
Eocene

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Acanthomorphata)

Diet

omnivore (based on Acanthomorphata)

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	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Eoleiognathus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		2	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Leiognathus genus	listed (PBDB)		4	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1960	Leiognathidae Danil'chenko p. 124
1963	Leiognathidae Jordan p. 686
1980	Leiognathidae Danil'chenko p. 132
1994	Leiognathidae Yabumoto and Uyeno p. 68
2011	Leiognathidae Schwarzhans and Bratischko p. 105
2013	Leiognathidae Betancur-R. et al.
2014	Leiognathidae Bannikov p. 28
2014	Leiognathidae Carnevale et al. p. 43

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

Danil'chenko P. G. (1960) Bony fishes of the Maikop deposits of the Caucasus, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 78, 1-247

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

Danil'chenko P. G. (1980) Otryad Perciformes, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 178, 115-169

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

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

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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