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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	35493	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35493

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Argentiniformes : Argentinidae : Argentina

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
superorder	Protacanthopterygii	Greenwood et al. 1966
order	Argentiniformes
family	Argentinidae	Bonaparte 1838
genus	Argentina	Linnaeus 1758

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Argentina	genus	belongs to Argentinidae	stated without evidence	Casier, 1966
Argentina	genus	belongs to Osmeriformes	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Argentina	genus	belongs to Argentinidae	stated with evidence	Schwarzhans, 2003
Argentina	genus	belongs to Argentinidae	stated without evidence	Lin et al., 2017

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

4 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

61.6 - 59.2 Ma
Paleocene

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Actinopterygii)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Argentina antarctica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Argentina erratica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	4	61.6 Ma Paleocene	61.6 Ma Paleocene
Argentina extenuata species	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Argentina longirostris ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	61.6 Ma Paleocene	61.6 Ma Paleocene
Argentina retusa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Argentina sphyraena species	listed (PBDB)	2	3.60 Ma Pliocene	0 Ma Extant
Argentina striata species	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1758	Argentina Linnaeus p. 315
1966	Argentina Casier p. 420
1984	Argentina Gaemers p. 26
2002	Argentina Sepkoski, Jr.
2003	Argentina Schwarzhans p. 40
2006	Argentina Girone et al. p. 655
2012	Argentina Fierstine et al. p. 38
2017	Argentina Lin et al. p. 13
2017	Argentina Schwarzhans et al. p. 152

References

Linnaeus C. , Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1, 1-824 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.542

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

Gaemers P. A. M. (1984) Fish otoliths from the Bassevelde Sand (Late Tongrian) of Ruisbroek, Belgium, and the Stratigraphy of the Early Oligocene of Belgium, Mededelingen van de Werkgroep voor Tertiaire en Kwartaire Geologie 21 1, 13-57

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

Schwarzhans W. (2003) Fish otoliths from the Paleocene of Denmark, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 2, 1-94

Girone A., Nolf D., et al (2006) Pleistocene fish otoliths from the Mediterranean Basin: a synthesis, Geobios 39, 651-671

Fierstine H. L., Huddleston R. W., et al (2012) Catalog of the Neogene bony fishes of California: A ystematic inventory of all published accounts, Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 159, 1-206

Lin C.-H., Brzobohaty R., et al (2017) Tortonian teleost otoliths from northern Italy: taxonomic synthesis and stratigraphic significance, European Journal of Taxonomy 322, 1-44 doi:10.5852/ejt.2017.322

Schwarzhans W., Mörs T., et al (2017) Before the freeze: otoliths from the Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctica, reveal dominance of gadiform fishes (Teleostei), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15 2, 147-179 doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1151958

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