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Trichiuridae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	127945	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=127945

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Scombriformes : Trichiuridae

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
-	Osteoglossocephalai
-	Clupeocephala	Patterson and Rosen 1977
-	Euteleosteomorpha
-	Neoteleostei	Rosen 1973
-	Eurypterygia
-	Ctenosquamata
-	Acanthomorphata
-	Euacanthomorphacea
-	Percomorphaceae
-	Scombrimorpharia
order	Scombriformes
family	Trichiuridae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Trichiuridae	family	belongs to Scombroidea	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Trichiuridae	family	belongs to Trichiuroidei	stated without evidence	Danil'chenko, 1960
Trichiuridae	family	belongs to Scombriformes	stated without evidence	Jordan, 1963
Trichiuridae	family	belongs to Trichiuroidea	stated without evidence	Casier, 1966
Trichiuridae	family	belongs to Perciformes	stated without evidence	Danil'chenko, 1980
Trichiuridae	family	belongs to Scombroidei	stated without evidence	Thurmond and Jones, 1981
Trichiuridae	family	belongs to Perciformes	stated without evidence	Cvancara and Hoganson, 1993
Trichiuridae	family	belongs to Scombroidei	stated without evidence	Monsch, 2004
Trichiuridae	family	belongs to Trichiuroidea	stated without evidence	Monsch and Bannikov, 2011
Trichiuridae	family	belongs to Scombriformes	stated with evidence	Betancur-R et al., 2013
Trichiuridae	family	belongs to Perciformes	stated without evidence	Szabo et al., 2017
Trichiuridae	family	belongs to Scombroidei	stated without evidence	Ebersole et al., 2019

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

9 (32%)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 50.3 Ma
Eocene

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Acanthomorphata)

Diet

omnivore (based on Acanthomorphata)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. T. Thurmond and D. E. Jones. 1981. Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Trichiurinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)	52	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Anenchelum ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	16	56.0 Ma Paleocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Aphanopus genus	listed (PBDB)	4	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Lepidopus genus	listed (PBDB)	17	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Trichiurichthys ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Trichiuridarum ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1902	Trichiuridae Hay p. 403
1960	Trichiuridae Danil'chenko p. 149
1963	Trichiuridae Jordan p. 680
1966	Trichiuridae Casier p. 244
1980	Trichiuridae Danil'chenko p. 149
1981	Trichiuridae Thurmond and Jones p. 105
1993	Trichiuridae Cvancara and Hoganson p. 15

Year	Name and Author
1999	Trichiuridae Weems p. 64
2004	Trichiuridae Monsch p. 446
2011	Trichiuridae Monsch and Bannikov p. 265
2013	Trichiuridae Betancur-R. et al.
2017	Trichiuridae Szabo et al.
2019	Trichiuridae Ebersole et al. p. 169

References

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

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Danil'chenko P. G. (1960) Bony fishes of the Maikop deposits of the Caucasus, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 78, 1-247

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

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

Danil'chenko P. G. (1980) Otryad Perciformes, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 178, 115-169

Cvancara A. M., Hoganson J. W. (1993) Vertebrates of the Cannonball Formation (Paleocene) in North and South Dakota, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13 1, 1-23

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

Monsch K. A. (2004) Revision of the scombroid fishes from the Cenozoic of England, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 95, 445-489 doi:10.1017/S0263593300001164

Monsch K. A., Bannikov A. F. (2011) New taxonomic synopses and revision of the scombroid fishes (Scombroidei, Perciformes), including billfishes, from the Cenozoic of territories of the former USSR, Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 102 4, 253-300 doi:10.1017/S1755691011010085

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

Szabo M., Botfalvai G., et al (2017) Upper Oligocene marine fishes from nearshore deposits of the Central Paratethys (Máriahalom, Hungary), Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments doi:10.1007/s12549-017-0285-0

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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