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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	35344	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35344

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Albuliformes : Albulidae : Albula

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
-	Elopocephalai
-	Elopocephala
-	Elopomorpha
order	Albuliformes	Greenwood et al. 1966
family	Albulidae	Bleeker 1859
subfamily	Albulinae	Bleeker 1859
genus	Albula	Gronow 1763

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Albula	genus	belongs to Albulidae	stated without evidence	Woodward, 1901
Albula	genus	belongs to Anguilliformes	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Albula	genus	belongs to Albulinae	stated without evidence	Ebersole et al., 2019

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (20%)

First Recorded Appearance

93.5 - 89.3 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Actinopterygii)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Albula bashiana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	61.6 Ma Paleocene	61.6 Ma Paleocene
Albula dunklei ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Albula eppsi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Albula lapidosa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1763	Albula Gronow
1901	Albula Woodward p. 60
1966	Albula Casier p. 133
1969	Albula Estes pp. 8-9
1970	Albula Applegate p. 412
1981	Albula Thurmond and Jones p. 93
1988	Albula Case and Schwimmer p. 299

Year	Name and Author
1990	Albula Nolf and Dockery III p. 3
1998	Albula Stringer p. 150
1998	Albula Weems p. 149
1999	Albula Weems p. 57
2002	Albula Sepkoski, Jr.
2016	Albula Maisch et al. p. 7
2019	Albula Ebersole et al. p. 161

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Woodward A. S. (1901) , Catalogue of Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part IV, 1-636

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

Estes R. (1969) Two new Late Cretaceous fishes from Montana and Wyoming, Breviora 335, 1-15

Applegate S. P. (1970) The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama, Fieldiana: Geology Memoires 3 8, 385-433

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

Case G. R., Schwimmer D. R. (1988) Late Cretaceous Fish from the Blufftown Formation (Campanian) in Western Georgia, Journal of Paleontology 62 2, 290-301

Nolf D., Dockery III D. T. (1990) Fish Otoliths from the Coffee Sand (Campanian) of Northeastern Mississippi, Mississippi Geology 10 3, 1-14

Stringer G. L. (1998) Otolith-based fishes form the Bowden Shell Bed (Pliocene) of Jamaica: Systematics and Palaeoecology, Contributions to Tertiary and Quaternary Geology 35 1-4, 147-160

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

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

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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