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Bregmaceros

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	35703	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35703

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Gadiformes : Bregmacerotidae : Bregmaceros

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
-	Paracanthomorphacea
-	Zeiogadaria
-	Gadariae
order	Gadiformes	Goodrich 1909
suborder	Gadoidei
family	Bregmacerotidae
genus	Bregmaceros	Thompson 1840

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Bregmaceros	genus	belongs to Bregmacerotidae	stated without evidence	David, 1956
Bregmaceros	genus	belongs to Gadiformes	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Bregmaceros	genus	belongs to Bregmacerotidae	stated without evidence	Gaudant et al., 2005
Bregmaceros	genus	belongs to Bregmacerotidae	stated with evidence	Schwarzhans, 2007
Bregmaceros	genus	belongs to Bregmacerotidae	stated without evidence	Gaudant and Courme, 2014

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (29%)

First Recorded Appearance

48.6 - 41.3 Ma
Eocene

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Gadiformes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Gadiformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Bregmaceros albyi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		16	23.0 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Bregmaceros cantori species	listed (PBDB)	Striped Codlet			0 Ma Extant
Bregmaceros felkeri ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Bregmaceros filamentosus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	48.6 Ma Eocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Bregmaceros kreyenhagus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	48.6 Ma Eocene	48.6 Ma Eocene
Bregmaceros troelli ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	48.6 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1840	Bregmaceros Thompson
1956	Bregmaceros David p. 570
1962	Bregmaceros Danilt'chenko p. 117
1965	Bregmaceros Frizzell and Dante p. 698
1983	Bregmaceros Nolf and Steurbaut p. 162
1992	Bregmaceros Nolf and Bajpai p. 200
1998	Bregmaceros Stringer p. 150

Year	Name and Author
2002	Bregmaceros Sepkoski, Jr.
2005	Bregmaceros Gaudant et al. p. 692
2006	Bregmaceros Girone et al. p. 656
2007	Bregmaceros Schwarzhans p. 315
2014	Bregmaceros Gaudant and Courme p. 208
2017	Bregmaceros Lin et al. p. 21

References

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

David L. R. (1956) Tertiary Anacanthin Fishes from California and the Pacific Northwest; Their\r\nPaleoecological Significance, Journal of Paleontology 30 30, 568-607

Danilt'chenko P. G. (1962) Fishes from the Dabakhanian Formation of Georgia, Paleontologischeskii Zhurnal 1, 111-126

Frizzell D. L., Dante J. H. (1965) Otoliths of some early Cenozoic fishes of the Gulf Coast, Journal of Paleontology 39 4, 687-718

Nolf D., Steurbaut E. (1983) Revision des otolithes de teleosteens du Tortonien stratotypique et de Montegibbio (Miocene Superieur d'Italie Septentrionale), Mededelingen van de Werkgroep voor Tertiaire en Kwartaire Geologie 20 4, 143-197

Nolf D., Bajpai S. (1992) Marine middle Eocene fish otoliths from India and Java, Bulletin de I'lnstitut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 62, 195-221

Stringer G. L. (1998) Otolith-based fishes form the Bowden Shell Bed (Pliocene) of Jamaica: Systematics and Palaeoecology, Contributions to Tertiary and Quaternary Geology 35 1-4, 147-160

Gaudant J., Tsaparas N., et al (2005) The Tortonian fish fauna of Gavdos Island (Greece), Comptes Rendus Palevol 4, 687-695 doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2005.08.003

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

Schwarzhans W. (2007) The otoliths from the middle Eocene of Osteroden near Bramsche, north-western Germany, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 244 3, 299-369 doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2007/0244-0299

Gaudant J., Courme M.-D. (2014) A new Pliocene marine fish fauna from north-western Cyprus, with a micropalaeontological account, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 272 2, 205-212 doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2014/0406

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

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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