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Pholidophorus

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)35287https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35287
Rankgenus (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Pholidophoriformes : Pholidophoridae : Pholidophorus
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
-Teleostei
orderPholidophoriformes
familyPholidophoridaeWoodward 1890
genusPholidophorusAgassiz 1843
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Pholidophorusgenusbelongs to Pholidophoridaestated with evidenceWoodward, 1890
Pholidophorusgenusbelongs to Pholidophoridaestated without evidenceHay, 1902
Pholidophorusgenusbelongs to Pholidophoridaestated with evidenceAgassiz, 1932
Pholidophorusgenusbelongs to Pholidophoridaestated without evidenceGardiner, 1960
Pholidophorusgenusbelongs to Pholidophoridaestated with evidenceNybelin, 1966
Pholidophorusgenusbelongs to Pholidophorinaestated with evidenceZambelli, 1986
Pholidophorusgenusbelongs to Pachycormiformessecond handSepkoski, 2002
Pholidophorusgenusbelongs to Pholidophoridaestated with evidenceArratia, 2013
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)21
First Recorded Appearance251 - 242 Ma
Triassic
Last Recorded Appearance129 - 122 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Environmentmarine (based on Vertebrata)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Pholidophoridae)
Dietsuspension feeder (based on Pholidophoridae)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)L. Agassiz. 1843. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome I (livr. 18). Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Pholidophorus australis
species
listed (PBDB)
Pholidophorus barazzettii
species
listed (PBDB)2247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
Pholidophorus brevis
species
listed (PBDB)
Pholidophorus curionii
species
listed (PBDB)4247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
242 Ma
Middle Triassic
Pholidophorus dubius
species
listed (PBDB)
Pholidophorus gaudryi
species
listed (PBDB)2183 Ma
Early Jurassic
183 Ma
Early Jurassic
Pholidophorus germanicus
species
listed (PBDB)10183 Ma
Early Jurassic
168 Ma
Middle Jurassic
Pholidophorus granulatus
species
listed (PBDB)1145 Ma
Late Jurassic
145 Ma
Late Jurassic
Pholidophorus gregarius
species
listed (PBDB)1251 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
251 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
Pholidophorus hartmanni
species
listed (PBDB)3183 Ma
Early Jurassic
183 Ma
Early Jurassic
Pholidophorus higginsi
species
listed (PBDB)4209 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
209 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Pholidophorus latiusculus
species
listed (PBDB)8228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
216 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Pholidophorus microlepidotus
species
listed (PBDB)1235 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
235 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Pholidophorus nitidus
species
listed (PBDB)1209 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
209 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Pholidophorus pachysomus
species
listed (PBDB)2197 Ma
Early Jurassic
197 Ma
Early Jurassic
Pholidophorus purbeckensis
species
listed (PBDB)
Pholidophorus pusillus
species
listed (PBDB)4228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
216 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Pholidophorus stricklandi
species
listed (PBDB)6201 Ma
Early Jurassic
201 Ma
Early Jurassic

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1843Pholidophorus Agassiz p. 177
1890Pholidophorus Woodward p. 43
1895Pholidophorus Woodward p. 447
1902Pholidophorus Hay p. 383
1919Pholidophorus Woodward p. 105
1932Pholidophorus Agassiz p. 145
1948Pholidophorus Rayner p. 318 figs. 24-29
1960Pholidophorus Gardiner p. 347
YearName and Author
1966Pholidophorus Nybelin p. 356
1967Pholidophorus Wenz p. 187
1980Pholidophorus Zambelli p. 7
1986Pholidophorus Zambelli p. 4
2002Pholidophorus Sepkoski, Jr.
2013Pholidophorus Arratia p. 15
2017Pholidophorus Arratia p. 21

References

Agassiz L. , Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome I (livr. 18). Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel, xxxii-188
Woodward A. S. The fossil fishes of the Hawkesbury Series at Gosford, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales. Palaeontology 4, 1-57
Woodward A. S. , Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III, 1-544
Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868
Woodward A. S. (1919) The fossil fishes of the English Wealden and Purbeck Formations, Part III, Palaeontographical Society, London 1917, 105-148
Rayner D. H. (1948) The Structure of Certain Jurassic Holostean Fishes with Special Reference to Their Neurocrania, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 233 601, 287-345
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
Nybelin O. (1966) On certain Triassic and Liassic representatives of the family Pholidophoridae s. str, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 2 8, 351-432
Wenz S. (1967) Compléments a l'étude des poissons actinoptérygiens du Jurassique français, Cahiers de Paléontologie 1967, 1-276
Zambelli R. (1980) Note sui Pholidophoriformes: III Contributo Pholidophorus gervasuttii sp. n, Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Caffi" 1, 5-55
Zambelli R. (1986) Notes on Pholidophoriformes VI Contribution Holidophorinae New Subfamily of the Upper Triassic (Note Sui Pholidophoriformes VI Contributo Holidophorinae Subfamiglia Nuova del Triassico Superiore), Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Caffi" 10, 1-32
Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560
Arratia G. (2013) Morphology, taxonomy, and phylogeny of Triassic Pholidophorid fishes (Actinopterygii, Teleostei), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33, 1-138
Arratia G. (2017) New Triassic teleosts (Actinopterygii, Teleosteomorpha) from northern Italy and their phylogenetic relationships among the most basal teleosts, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37, e1312690
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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