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Melanogrammus

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	35722	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35722

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Gadiformes : Gadidae : Melanogrammus

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	Gadidae	Rafinesque 1810
genus	Melanogrammus	Gill 1862

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Melanogrammus	genus	belongs to Gadidae	stated without evidence	Fitch and Lavenberg, 1983
Melanogrammus	genus	belongs to Gadiformes	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

16.0 - 3.6 Ma
Neogene

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

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1862	Melanogrammus Gill
1983	Melanogrammus Fitch and Lavenberg p. 512
2002	Melanogrammus Sepkoski, Jr.

References

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

Fitch J. E., Lavenberg R. J. (1983) Teleost fish otoliths from Lee Creek Mine, Aurora, North Carolina (Yorktown Formation: Pliocene), Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 53, 509-529

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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