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Lepidopus

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	36070	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=36070

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Scombriformes : Trichiuridae : Lepidopus

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
-	Scombrimorpharia
order	Scombriformes
family	Trichiuridae
genus	Lepidopus	Gouan 1770

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Lepidopus	genus	belongs to Trichiuridae	stated without evidence	Sauvage, 1873
Lepidopus	genus	belongs to Lepidopidae	stated without evidence	Weiler, 1938
Lepidopus	genus	belongs to Trichiuridae	stated without evidence	Danil'chenko, 1960
Lepidopus	genus	belongs to Perciformes	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Lepidopus	genus	belongs to Trichiuridae	stated without evidence	Gaudant et al., 2005

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (33%)

First Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 28.1 Ma
Oligocene

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Acanthomorphata)

Diet

omnivore (based on Acanthomorphata)

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	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Lepidopus albyi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Lepidopus anguis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Lepidopus caudatus species	listed (PBDB)	1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Lepidopus gouanianus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Lepidopus lateralis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1770	Lepidopus Gouan
1873	Lepidopus Sauvage p. 122
1929	Lepidopus Pauca p. 30
1938	Lepidopus Weiler p. 23
1960	Lepidopus Danil'chenko p. 149
1962	Lepidopus Danilt'chenko p. 121

Year	Name and Author
1968	Lepidopus Jerzmanska p. 462
1980	Lepidopus Danil'chenko p. 149
2002	Lepidopus Sepkoski, Jr.
2005	Lepidopus Gaudant et al. p. 693
2011	Lepidopus Monsch and Bannikov p. 268
2014	Lepidopus Gaudant and Courme p. 210

References

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

Sauvage H. E. Memoire sur la faune ichthyologigue de la periode Tertiare et plus specialement sur les poissons fossiles d'Oran et de Licata, Annales des Sciences Geologiques 4, 1-272

Pauca M. (1929) Vorläufige mitteilung über eine fossile fischfauna aus den Oligozänschiefern von Sulanesti, Muscel, Academia Romana 12 4-5, 26-34

Weiler W. (1938) Neue Untersuchungen an Mitteloligozänen Fischen Ungarns, Geologica Hungarica, Series Palaeontologica 15, 1-31

Danil'chenko P. G. (1960) Bony fishes of the Maikop deposits of the Caucasus, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 78, 1-247

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

Jerzmanska A. (1968) Ichtyofaune des couches a ménilite (flysch des Karpathes), Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 13 3, 379-488

Danil'chenko P. G. (1980) Otryad Perciformes, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 178, 115-169

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

Monsch K. A., Bannikov A. F. (2011) New taxonomic synopses and revision of the scombroid fishes (Scombroidei, Perciformes), including billfishes, from the Cenozoic of territories of the former USSR, Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 102 4, 253-300 doi:10.1017/S1755691011010085

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

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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