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Acanthomorphata

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	266050	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=266050

Rank

unranked clade (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Acanthomorphata

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	(Rosen 1973)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Acanthomorphata	unranked clade	belongs to Euteleostei	stated without evidence	Grande, 1988
Acanthomorphata	order	belongs to Ctenosquamata	stated without evidence	Nolf and Dockery, 1990
Acanthomorphata	unranked clade	belongs to Euteleostei	stated without evidence	Murray, 1996
Acanthomorphata	unranked clade	belongs to Neoteleostei	stated without evidence	Arratia and Chorn, 1998
Acanthomorphata	order	belongs to Osteichthyes	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Acanthomorphata	unranked clade	belongs to Euteleosteii	stated without evidence	Forey et al., 2003
Acanthomorphata	unranked clade	belongs to Teleostei	stated without evidence	Gottfried et al., 2006
Acanthomorphata	unranked clade	belongs to Ctenosquamata	stated with evidence	Betancur-R et al., 2013

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

3,053

Extant Size (PBDB)

1,227 (40%)

First Recorded Appearance

130 - 125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Acanthomorphata)

Diet

omnivore (based on Acanthomorphata)

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
Polymixiacea superorder	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Polymixiiformes order	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Beardfish	14	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Aipichthyoidea ✝ superfamily	listed (PBDB)		2	145 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Ferrifronsidae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)		1	145 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Omosomopsis ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Oncolepis ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Pharmacichthys ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Pietschellus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Pseudotetrapturus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Spinocaudichthys ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Xiphopterus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Euacanthomorphacea unranked clade	listed (PBDB)		3,323	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Lampridacea unranked clade	listed (PBDB)		13	59.2 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Paracanthomorphacea unranked clade	listed (PBDB)		399	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Percomorpha unranked clade	listed (PBDB)		5	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1973	Acanthomorpha Rosen
1988	Acanthomorpha Grande
1990	Acanthomorpha Nolf and Dockery III p. 8
1996	Acanthomorpha Murray p. 642
1998	Acanthomorpha Arratia and Chorn
2002	Acanthomorpha Sepkoski, Jr.
2003	Acanthomorpha Forey et al. p. 229
2006	Acanthomorpha Gottfried et al.
2013	Acanthomorphata Betancur-R. et al.

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

Grande L. (1988) A Well Preserved Paracanthopterygian Fish (Teleostei) from Freshwater Lower Paleocene Deposits of Montana, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 8 2, 117-130

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

Murray A. M. (1996) A new Paleocene genus and species of percopsid, Massamorichthys wilsoni (Paracanthopterygii) from Joffre Bridge, Alberta, Canada, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16 4, 642-652

Arratia G., Chorn J. (1998) A New Primitive Acanthomorph Fish from the Greenhorn Formation (Late Cretaceous) of Nebraska, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18 2, 301-314

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

Forey P. L., Yi L., et al (2003) Fossil fishes from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Namoura, Lebanon, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 1 4, 227-330 doi:10.1017/S147720190300107X

Gottfried M. D., Fordyce R. E., et al (2006) Megalampris keyesi, a Giant Moonfish (Teleostei, Lampridiformes) from the Late Oligocene of New Zealand 26 3, 544-551

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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