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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	36169	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=36169

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Perciformes : Pygaeus

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
-	Euacanthomorphacea
-	Percomorphaceae
-	Percomorpharia
order	Perciformes	Stirton 1953
suborder	Percoidei
genus	Pygaeus	Agassiz 1842

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pygaeus	genus	belongs to Chaetodontes	stated without evidence	Agassiz, 1835
Pygaeus	genus	belongs to Chaetodontidae	stated without evidence	Eastman, 1904
Pygaeus	genus	belongs to Perciformes	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Pygaeus	genus	belongs to Percoidei	stated with evidence	Carnevale et al., 2014
Pygaeus	genus	belongs to Percoidei	stated without evidence	Bannikov, 2014

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 47.8 Ma
Eocene

Last Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 47.8 Ma
Eocene

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Perciformes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Perciformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

L. Agassiz. 1842. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome IV (livr. 14). Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchâtel

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Pygaeus agassizii ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Pygaeus bolcanus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Pygaeus coleanus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Pygaeus dorsalis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Pygaeus egertoni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Pygaeus gibbus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Pygaeus gigas ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Pygaeus nobilis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Pygaeus nuchalis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Pygaeus oblongus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1835	Pygaeus Agassiz p. 41ff
1842	Pygaeus Agassiz p. 251
1904	Pygaeus Eastman p. 30
2002	Pygaeus Sepkoski, Jr.
2014	Pygaeus Bannikov p. 28
2014	Pygaeus Carnevale et al. p. 44

References

Agassiz L. , Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome IV (livr. 14). Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchâtel, 205-291

Agassiz L. , Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome IV (livr. 4). Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel, 33-52

Eastman C. R. (1904) Descriptions of Bolca fishes, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 46 1, 1-36

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

Bannikov A. F. (2014) The systematic composition of the Eocene actinopterygian fish fauna from Monte Bolca, northern Italy, as known to date, Studi e ricerche sui giacimenti terziari di Bolca, XV - Miscellanea paleontologica 12, 23-34

Carnevale G., Bannikov A. F., et al (2014) The Pesciara-Monte Postale Fossil-Lagerstätte: 2. Fishes and other vertebrates, Rendiconti della Società Paleontologica Italiana 4, 37-63

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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