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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	36290	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=36290

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Tetraodontiformes : Diodontidae : Diodon

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	Tetraodontiformes	Berg 1940
suborder	Tetraodontoidei
family	Diodontidae
genus	Diodon	Linnaeus 1758

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Diodon	genus	belongs to Gymnodontes	stated without evidence	Agassiz, 1835
Diodon	genus	belongs to Diodontidae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Diodon	genus	belongs to Gymnodontidae	stated without evidence	Eastman, 1904
Diodon	genus	belongs to Gymnodontidae	stated with evidence	Leriche, 1942
Diodon	genus	belongs to Diodontidae	stated without evidence	Deraniyagala, 1969
Diodon	genus	belongs to Diodontidae	stated with evidence	Thurmond and Jones, 1981
Diodon	genus	belongs to Tetradontiformes	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Diodon	genus	belongs to Diodontidae	stated without evidence	Vicens and Rodríguez-Perea, 2003

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (17%)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 47.8 Ma
Eocene

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Tetraodontiformes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Tetraodontiformes)

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
Diodon circumflexus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Diodon connewarrensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Diodon erinaceus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Diodon formosus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	4	23.0 Ma Miocene	7.25 Ma Miocene
Diodon vetus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	2	23.0 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1758	Diodon Linnaeus
1835	Diodon Agassiz p. 38ff
1902	Diodon Hay p. 408
1904	Diodon Eastman p. 34
1924	Diodon Chapman and Cudmore p. 146
1942	Diodon Leriche p. 95

Year	Name and Author
1969	Diodon Deraniyagala p. 95
1981	Diodon Thurmond and Jones p. 108
1987	Diodon Kumar and Loyal p. 75
2002	Diodon Sepkoski, Jr.
2003	Diodon Vicens and Rodríguez-Perea p. 124

References

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

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

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

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

Chapman F., Cudmore F. A. (1924) New or little-known fossils in the National Museum, Part XXVII.-Some Cainozoic fish remains, with a revision of the group, Royal Society of Victoria 36 2, 107-162

Leriche M. (1942) Contribution a l'etude des faunes ichthyologiques marines des terrains tertiaires de la plaine cotiere Atlantique et du centre des Etats-Unis, Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France (Nouvelle Serie) 45, 1-111

Deraniyagala P. E. P. (1969) Some aspects of the Tertiary period in Ceylon, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (Ceylon Branch), New Series 12, 86-108

Thurmond J. T., Jones D. E. (1981) , Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama, 1-244

Kumar K., Loyal R. S. (1987) Eocene ichthyofauna from the Subathu Formation, Northwestern Himalaya, India., Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 32, 60-84

Vicens D. S., Rodríguez-Perea A. (2003) Vertebrats fossils (Pisces i Reptilia) del Burdigalia de cala Sant Vicenc (Pollenca, Mallorca), Boll. Soco Hist. Nat. Balears 46, 117-130

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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