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Lasalichthys ✝

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)65495https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=65495
Rankgenus (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Palaeonisciformes : Redfieldiidae : Lasalichthys
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
superclassActinopterygii
classActinopteri
subclassChondrosteiMüller 1844
orderPalaeonisciformesHay 1902
suborderRedfieldioidei
familyRedfieldiidaeHutchinson 1973
genusLasalichthysSchaeffer 1967
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Lasalichthysgenusbelongs to Redfieldiidaestated with evidenceSchaeffer, 1967
Lasalichthysgenusbelongs to Redfieldiidaestated without evidenceMurry, 1986
Lasalichthysgenusbelongs to RedfieldiidaeimpliedIrmis, 2005
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)2
First Recorded Appearance237 - 228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Last Recorded Appearance228 - 201 Ma
Mesozoic
Environmentmarine (based on Vertebrata)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Palaeonisciformes)
Dietcarnivore (based on Palaeonisciformes)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)B. Schaeffer. 1967. Late Triassic fishes from the western United States. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135(6):285-342

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Lasalichthys hillsi ✝
species		listed (PBDB)3228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic		228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1967Lasalichthys Schaeffer
1986Lasalichthys Murry p. 115
1989Lasalichthys Murry p. 259
2005Lasalichthys Irmis p. 66

References

Schaeffer B. (1967) Late Triassic fishes from the western United States, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135 6, 285-342
Murry P. A. (1986) Vertebrate paleontology of the Dockum Group, western Texas and eastern New Mexico, The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Change Across the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 109-137
Murry P. A. (1989) Microvertebrate fossils from the Petrified Forest and Owl Rock Members (Chinle Formation) in Petrified Forest National Park and vicinity, Arizona, Dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs in the American Southwest, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, 249-277
Irmis R. B. (2005) The vertebrate fauna of the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation in northern Arizona, In S. J. Nesbitt, W. G. Parker, & R. B. Irmis (eds.), Guidebook to the Triassic Formations of the Colorado Plateau in Northern Arizona: Geology, Paleontology, and History. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 9, 63-88
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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