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Amiiformes

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Rhacolepis buccalis

Brazil

Rhacolepis buccalis

Pernambuco, Brazil

Enchodus sp.

Khouribga Province, Béni Mellal-Khénifra Region, Morocco

Rhacolepis buccalis

Brazil

Rhacolepis buccalis

Pernambuco, Brazil

Enchodus sp.

Khouribga Province, Béni Mellal-Khénifra Region, Morocco

Rhacolepis buccalis

Brazil

Rhacolepis buccalis

Pernambuco, Brazil

Description

The Amiiformes order of fish has only one extant species, the bowfin (Amia calva).

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiiformes, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	494	https://www.gbif.org/species/494
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	35190	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35190

Rank

order

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopterygii : Amiiformes

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Amiiformes

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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
infraclass	Holostei
order	Amiiformes	Hay 1929

Common Name

bowfin

Scientific Name

Amiiformes

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Amiiformes	order	belongs to Osteichthyes	stated with evidence	Estes, 1964
Amiiformes	order	belongs to Holostei	stated without evidence	Thurmond and Jones, 1981
Amiiformes	order	belongs to Holostei	implied	Bryant, 1989
Amiiformes	order	belongs to Halecomorphi	stated with evidence	Grande and Bemis, 1998
Amiiformes	order	belongs to Actinopterygii	stated without evidence	Weems, 1999
Amiiformes	order	belongs to Halecomorphi	stated with evidence	Cartanyá, 1999
Amiiformes	order	belongs to Osteichthyes	stated without evidence	Peng et al., 2001
Amiiformes	order	belongs to Osteichthyes	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Amiiformes	order	belongs to Osteichthyes	stated without evidence	Pearson et al., 2002
Amiiformes	order	belongs to Neopterygii	stated without evidence	Meyer and Zardoya, 2003
Amiiformes	order	belongs to Halecomorphi	stated without evidence	Kriwet, 2005
Amiiformes	order	belongs to Holostei	stated without evidence	Nelson, 2006
Amiiformes	order	belongs to Halecomorphi	stated without evidence	Cavin et al., 2007
Amiiformes	order	belongs to Neopterygii	stated without evidence	Long, 2011
Amiiformes	order	belongs to Holostei	stated with evidence	Betancur-R et al., 2013
Amiiformes	order	belongs to Halecomorphi	stated without evidence	Carnevale and Godfrey, 2018

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

100

Extant Size (PBDB)

7 (7.0%)

First Recorded Appearance

254 - 252 Ma
Permian

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile

Diet

carnivore, piscivore

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

Common Name(s)

Moddersnoeken, Bowfin

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiiformes

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Amioidei suborder	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Amioidea superfamily	listed (PBDB)		5	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Caturoidea ✝ superfamily	listed (PBDB)		2	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Amiidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		440	242 Ma Middle Triassic	0 Ma Extant
Caturidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		57	254 Ma Permian	0 Ma Extant
Dorypteridae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Furidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ionoscopidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Liodesmidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Macrosemiidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ophiopsidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Palaeolabridae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	63.3 Ma Paleocene
Paracentrophoridae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parasemionotidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Promecosominidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Semionotidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sinamiidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ainia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	156 Ma Jurassic	156 Ma Jurassic
Allolepidotus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aphanepygus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Eoeugnathus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eurypoma ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	156 Ma Jurassic	156 Ma Jurassic
Eusemius ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Gymnoichthys genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ionoscopus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		3	161 Ma Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Leedsichthys ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		5	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	165 Ma Middle Jurassic
Oligopleura ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Otomitla ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Sinoeugnathus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	242 Ma Middle Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Stromerichthys genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Tomognathus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1929	Amiiformes Hay
1964	Amiiformes Estes p. 29
1981	Amiiformes Thurmond and Jones p. 86
1988	Amiiformes Case and Schwimmer p. 297
1989	Amiiformes Bryant p. 22
1998	Amiiformes Grande and Bemis p. 31
1999	Amiiformes Cartanyá p. 548
1999	Amiiformes Weems p. 55
2001	Amiiformes Peng et al. p. 14

Year	Name and Author
2002	Amiiformes Pearson et al. p. 154
2002	Amiiformes Sepkoski, Jr.
2003	Amiiformes Meyer and Zardoya
2005	Amiiformes Kriwet p. 101
2006	Amiiformes Nelson
2007	Amiiformes Cavin et al.
2011	Amiiformes Long p. 242
2013	Amiiformes Betancur-R. et al.
2018	Amiiformes Carnevale and Godfrey p. 164

References

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

Estes R. (1964) Fossil vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Lance Formation, eastern Wyoming, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 49, 1-187

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

Bryant L. J. (1989) Non-dinosaurian lower vertebrates across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Montana, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 134, 1-107

Grande L., Bemis W. E. (1998) A comprehensive phylogenetic study of amiid fishes (Amiidae) based on comparative skeletal anatomy. An empirical search for interconnected patterns of natural history. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 4, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18 1, suppl., 1-690

Cartanyá J. (1999) An overview of the Middle Triassic actinopterygians from Alcover, Mont-ral and El Pinetell (Catalonia, Spain), Mesozoic Fishes 2 - Systematics and the Fossil Record 2, 535-551

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

Peng J., Russell A. P., et al (2001) Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Natural History Occasional Paper 25, 1-54

Pearson D. A., Schaefer T., et al (2002) Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Hell Creek Formation in southwestern North Dakota and northwestern South Dakota, The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains: An Integrated Continental Record of the End of the Cretaceous, Geological Society of America Special Paper 361, 145-167

Meyer A., Zardoya R. (2003) Recent advances in the (molecular) phylogeny of vertebrates, Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 34, 311-338

Kriwet J. (2005) An amioid fish (Neopterygii, Amiiformes) from the Late Jurassic of the Iberian peninsula, Géobios 38, 99-106

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

Cavin L., Suteethorn V., et al (2007) The first sinamiid fish (Holostei: Halecomorpha) from Southeast Asia (Early Cretaceous of Thailand), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 4, 827-837

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

Carnevale G., Godfrey S. J. (2018) Miocene Bony Fishes of the Calvert, Choptank, St. Marys, and Eastover Formations, Chesapeake Group, Maryland and Virginia, Smithsonian Contribution to Paleobiology, 161-212

Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2019). Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2019. - via World Register of Marine Species

Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa. 3882(1): 1-230. - via World Register of Marine Species

Ruggiero, M. A., D. P. Gordon, T. M. Orrell, N. Bailly, T. Bourgoin, R. C. Brusca, et al., 2015: Correction: A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE vol. 10, no. 6, e0130114. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Nelson, Joseph S., 1994: null. Fishes of the World, Third Edition. xvii + 600. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

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