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Elopomorpha

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	92055	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=92055

Rank

unranked clade (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Elopomorpha

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
superorder	Elopomorpha

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Elopomorpha	superorder	belongs to Elopocephala	stated without evidence	Nolf and Dockery, 1990
Elopomorpha	superorder	belongs to Teleostei	stated without evidence	Fielitz and Bardack, 1992
Elopomorpha	unranked clade	belongs to Elopocephala	stated without evidence	Poyato-Ariza and Wenz, 1993
Elopomorpha	superorder	belongs to Teleostei	stated without evidence	Forey et al., 2003
Elopomorpha	unranked clade	belongs to Elopocephala	stated with evidence	Betancur-R et al., 2013
Elopomorpha	unranked clade	belongs to Teleostei	stated without evidence	Bannikov, 2014
Elopomorpha	unranked clade	belongs to Teleocephala	stated without evidence	Ebersole et al., 2019

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

400

Extant Size (PBDB)

121 (30%)

First Recorded Appearance

156 - 151 Ma
Jurassic

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Actinopterygii)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. H. Greenwood, D. E. Rosen, and S. H. Weitzman, G. S. Myers. 1966. Phyletic studies of teleostean fishes, with a provisional classification of living forms. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 131(4):339-456

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Albuliformes order	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Bonefish	134	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Anguilliformes order	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Eel	219	145 Ma Late Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Elopiformes order	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		234	156 Ma Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Megalopiformes order	listed (PBDB)	Tarpon			0 Ma Extant
Notacanthiformes order	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	48.6 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Saccopharygiformes order	listed (PBDB)
Saccopharyngiformes order	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Naiathaelon ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		2	152 Ma Late Jurassic	151 Ma Late Jurassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1966	Elopomorpha Greenwood et al. p. 350
1990	Elopomorpha Nolf and Dockery III p. 2
1992	Elopomorpha Fielitz and Bardack
1993	Elopomorpha Poyato-Ariza and Wenz
2003	Elopomorpha Forey et al. p. 229
2006	Elopomorpha Nelson

Year	Name and Author
2007	Elopomorpha Carnevale p. 8
2011	Elopomorpha Long p. 242
2013	Elopomorpha Betancur-R. et al.
2014	Elopomorpha Bannikov p. 25
2019	Elopomorpha Ebersole et al. p. 156

References

Greenwood P. H., Rosen D. E., et al (1966) Phyletic studies of teleostean fishes, with a provisional classification of living forms, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 131 4, 339-456

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

Fielitz C., Bardack D. (1992) Deltaichthys albuloides, a new and unusually preserved albulid (Teleostei) probably from the Cretaceous of Texas, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12 12, 133-141

Poyato-Ariza F. J., Wenz S. (1993) Naiathaelon okkidion nov. gen. nov. sp. (Teleostei, Elopomorpha) from the early Tithonian of Canjuers (Var, France), Geobios 16, 157-166 doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(94)80030-8

Forey P. L., Yi L., et al (2003) Fossil fishes from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Namoura, Lebanon, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 1 4, 227-330 doi:10.1017/S147720190300107X

Nelson J. S. (2006) , Fishes of the world, 4th edition, 1-601

Carnevale G. (2007) Fossil fishes from the Serravallian (Middle Miocene) of Torricella Peligna, Italy, Palaeontographia Italica 91, 1-67

Long J. A. (2011) , The Rise of Fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution (Second Edition), 1-287

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

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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