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Pachycormidae ✝

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)99762https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=99762
Rankfamily (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Pachycormiformes : Pachycormidae
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
superclassActinopterygii
classActinopteri
subclassNeopterygii
-TeleosteomorphaArratia et al. 2004
-AspidorhyncheiNelson et al. 2016
orderPachycormiformesBerg 1940
familyPachycormidaeWoodward 1895
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Pachycormidaefamilybelongs to Protospondylistated with evidenceWoodward, 1895
Pachycormidaefamilybelongs to Halecomorphistated without evidenceHay, 1902
Pachycormidaefamilybelongs to Amioideastated without evidenceGardiner, 1960
Pachycormidaefamilybelongs to Halecomorphistated without evidenceJordan, 1963
Pachycormidaefamilybelongs to Amioideistated without evidenceApplegate, 1970
Pachycormidaefamilybelongs to Amiiformesstated without evidenceThurmond and Jones, 1981
Pachycormidaefamilybelongs to Pachycormiformesstated with evidenceDelsate, 1997
Pachycormidaefamilybelongs to Pachycormiformesstated without evidenceShimada et al., 2006
Pachycormidaefamilybelongs to Pachycormiformesstated with evidenceFriedmann, 2012
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)26
First Recorded Appearance183 - 182 Ma
Early Jurassic
Last Recorded Appearance83.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Environmentmarine (based on Vertebrata)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Pachycormiformes)
Dietcarnivore (based on Pachycormidae)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)B. G. Gardiner. 1960. A revision of certain actinopterygian and coelacanth fishes, chiefly from the Lower Lias. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 4(7):241-384

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Asthenocormus ✝
genus		listed (PBDB)
Euthynotus ✝
genus		listed (PBDB)4183 Ma
Early Jurassic		183 Ma
Early Jurassic
Ohmdenia ✝
genus		listed (PBDB)1183 Ma
Early Jurassic		183 Ma
Early Jurassic
Pachycormus ✝
genus		listed (PBDB)33183 Ma
Early Jurassic		164 Ma
Middle Jurassic
Prosauropsis ✝
genus		listed (PBDB)
Protosphyraena ✝
genus		listed (PBDB)18105 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous		83.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Sauropsis ✝
genus		listed (PBDB)2183 Ma
Early Jurassic		183 Ma
Early Jurassic
Saurostomus ✝
genus		listed (PBDB)8183 Ma
Early Jurassic		183 Ma
Early Jurassic

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1892Protosphyraenidae Cope
1895Pachycormidae Woodward
1902Pachycormidae Hay p. 378
1960Pachycormidae Gardiner p. 370
1963Pachycormidae Jordan p. 615
1970Pachycormidae Applegate p. 403
1981Pachycormidae Thurmond and Jones p. 86
1997Pachycormidae Delsate p. 129
2006Pachycormidae Shimada et al. p. 23
2012Pachycormidae Friedmann p. 945

References

Gardiner B. G. (1960) A revision of certain actinopterygian and coelacanth fishes, chiefly from the Lower Lias, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 4 7, 241-384
Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868
Jordan D. S. (1963) The Genera of Fishes and a Classification of Fishes, Stanford University Press, 1-816
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
Delsate D. (1997) Actinoptérygiens du Toarcien inférieur du Grand Duché de Luxembourg: Présence de Leptoplepis normandica Nybelin 1962 (Téléostéen) ave otolithes in situ, Travaux scientifiques du Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Luxembourg 27, 125-129
Shimada K., Schumacher B. A., et al (2006) Fossil marine vertebrates from the lowermost Greenhorn Limestone (Upper Cretaceous: Middle Cenomanian) in southeastern Colorado, Journal of Paleontology 80 sp 63, 1-45
Friedmann M. (2012) Parallel evolutionary trajectories underlie the origin of giant suspension-feeding whales and bony fish, Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279, 944-951 doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.1381
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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