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Alepisauroidei

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	266036	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=266036

Rank

suborder (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Aulopiformes : Alepisauroidei

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
-	Aulopa
order	Aulopiformes	Rosen 1973
suborder	Alepisauroidei

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Alepisauroidei	suborder	belongs to Aulopiformes	stated without evidence	Nolf and Dockery, 1990
Alepisauroidei	suborder	belongs to Myctophiformes	stated without evidence	Prokofiev, 2006
Alepisauroidei	suborder	belongs to Aulopiformes	stated with evidence	Betancur-R et al., 2013
Alepisauroidei	suborder	belongs to Aulopiformes	stated without evidence	Nazarkin, 2016

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

34 (57%)

First Recorded Appearance

129 - 125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Aulopiformes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Aulopiformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. Betancur-R., R. E. Broughton, and E. O. Wiley, K. Carpenter, J. A. López, C. Li, N. I. Holcroft, D. Arcila, M. Sanciangco, J. C. Cureton, F. Zhang, T. Buser, M. A. Campbell, J. A. Ballesteros, A. Roa-Varon, S. Willis, W. C. Borden, T. Rowley, P. C. Reneau, G. Lu, T. Grande, G. Arratia, G. 2013. The tree of life and a new classification of bony fishes. PLOS Currents Tree of Life

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Alepisauroidea ✝ superfamily	listed (PBDB)		4	28.1 Ma Oligocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Alepisauridae family	listed (PBDB)	Lancetfish	4	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Bathysauridae family	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Chlorophthalmidae family	listed (PBDB)		13	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Evermannellidae family	listed (PBDB)		1	47.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Giganturidae family	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Ipnopidae family	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Notosudidae family	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Paralepididae family	listed (PBDB)		13	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Scopelarchidae family	listed (PBDB)		4	47.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Sudidae family	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Enchodontoidei unranked clade	listed (PBDB)		14	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1990	Alepisauroidei Nolf and Dockery III p. 6
2006	Alepisauroidei Prokofiev p. S44
2013	Alepisauroidei Betancur-R. et al.
2016	Alepisauroidei Nazarkin p. 830
2017	Alepisauroidei Holloway et al. p. 605

References

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

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

Prokofiev A. M. (2006) Fossil Myctophoid Fishes (Myctophiformes: Myctophoidei) from Russia and Adjacent Regions, Journal of Ichthyology 46 Suppl. 1, S38-S83

Nazarkin M. V. (2016) Cenozoic fossil fishes of the extinct alepisauroid family Polymerichthyidae from the Sakhalin Island, Russia, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61 4, 829-829 doi:10.4202/app.00247.2016

Holloway W. L., Claeson K. M., et al (2017) A new species of the neopterygian fish Enchodus from the Duwi Formation, Campanian, Late Cretaceous, Western Desert, central Egypt, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62 3, 603-611 doi:10.4202/app.00331.2016

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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