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Scorpaeniformes

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	35887	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35887

Rank

order (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Scorpaeniformes

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
order	Scorpaeniformes

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Scorpaeniformes	unranked clade	belongs to Cataphracti	stated without evidence	Jordan, 1963
Scorpaeniformes	order	belongs to Osteichthyes	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Scorpaeniformes	order	belongs to Acanthopterygii	stated without evidence	Nelson, 2006
Scorpaeniformes	order	belongs to Percomorpha	stated without evidence	Long, 2011
Scorpaeniformes	order	belongs to Teleostei	stated without evidence	Fierstine et al., 2012

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

27 (71%)

First Recorded Appearance

47.8 - 41.3 Ma
Eocene

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Scorpaeniformes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Scorpaeniformes)

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
Anoplopomatoidei ✝ suborder	listed (PBDB)
Cottoidei ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Hexagrammoidei ✝ suborder	listed (PBDB)
Aploactidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Caracanthidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Congiopodidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Gnathanacanthidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Pataecidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Triglidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Sea Robin	31	47.8 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Ctenopomichthys ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Eosynanceja ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Eutrigla genus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Hoplichthys genus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Lepidocottus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Neoplatycephalus genus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Notesthes genus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Ophiodon genus	listed (PBDB)		1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Podothecus genus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Zaniolepis genus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1963	Scorpaeniformes Jordan p. 708
2002	Scorpaeniformes Sepkoski, Jr.
2006	Scorpaeniformes Nelson
2011	Scorpaeniformes Long p. 244
2012	Scorpaeniformes Fierstine et al. p. 96
2018	Scorpaeniformes Carnevale and Godfrey p. 174

References

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

Jordan D. S. (1963) The Genera of Fishes and a Classification of Fishes, Stanford University Press, 1-816

Nelson J. S. (2006) , Fishes of the world, 4th edition, 1-601

Long J. A. (2011) , The Rise of Fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution (Second Edition), 1-287

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

Carnevale G., Godfrey S. J. (2018) Miocene Bony Fishes of the Calvert, Choptank, St. Marys, and Eastover Formations, Chesapeake Group, Maryland and Virginia, Smithsonian Contribution to Paleobiology, 161-212

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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