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Albuloidei

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	63608	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=63608

Rank

suborder (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Albuliformes : Albuloidei

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
suborder	Albuloidei

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Albuloidei	suborder	belongs to Isospondyli	stated without evidence	Jordan, 1963
Albuloidei	suborder	belongs to Elopiformes	stated without evidence	Estes, 1969
Albuloidei	suborder	belongs to Anguilliformes	stated without evidence	Nolf and Dockery, 1990
Albuloidei	suborder	belongs to Elopiformes	stated without evidence	Fielitz and Bardack, 1992
Albuloidei	suborder	belongs to Albuliformes	stated without evidence	Schwarzhans and Bratischko, 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

5 (38%)

First Recorded Appearance

86.3 - 83.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

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	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Albuloidea ✝ superfamily	listed (PBDB)
Bananogmiidae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)	1	86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Pterothrissidae family	listed (PBDB)	27	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Thryptodontidae family	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1963	Albuloidei Jordan p. 618
1969	Albuloidei Estes p. 7
1978	Albuloidei Estes and Hiatt p. 2
1981	Albuloidei Thurmond and Jones p. 92
1988	Albuloidei Case and Schwimmer p. 299
1990	Albuloidei Nolf and Dockery III p. 3
1992	Albuloidei Fielitz and Bardack
2011	Albuloidei Schwarzhans and Bratischko p. 87

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

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

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

Estes R., Hiatt R. (1978) Studies on fossil phyllodont fishes: a new species of Phyllodus (Elopiformes, Alubuloidea) from the Late Cretaceous of Montana, PaleBios 28, 1-10

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

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

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

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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