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Acipenseriformes

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	35127	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35127

Rank

order (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Acipenseriformes

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	Chondrostei	Müller 1844
order	Acipenseriformes	Berg 1940

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Acipenseriformes	order	belongs to Osteichthyes	stated with evidence	Estes, 1964
Acipenseriformes	order	belongs to Chondrostei	stated without evidence	Applegate, 1970
Acipenseriformes	order	belongs to Chondrostei	stated with evidence	Grande and Bemis, 1996
Acipenseriformes	order	belongs to Actinopterygii	stated without evidence	Weems, 1999
Acipenseriformes	order	belongs to Osteichthyes	stated without evidence	Peng et al., 2001
Acipenseriformes	order	belongs to Chondrostei	stated with evidence	Chhabra and Mishra, 2002
Acipenseriformes	order	belongs to Chondrostei	stated without evidence	Grande et al., 2002
Acipenseriformes	order	belongs to Osteichthyes	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Acipenseriformes	order	belongs to Neopterygii	stated without evidence	Meyer and Zardoya, 2003
Acipenseriformes	order	belongs to Chondrostei	stated without evidence	Grande and Hilton, 2006
Acipenseriformes	order	belongs to Chondrostei	stated with evidence	Betancur-R et al., 2013
Acipenseriformes	order	belongs to Chondrostei	stated without evidence	Carnevale and Godfrey, 2018

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

28 (31%)

First Recorded Appearance

252 - 251 Ma
Phanerozoic

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Acipenseriformes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Acipenseriformes)

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
Acipenseriodei suborder	listed (PBDB)		49	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Chondrosteoidei ✝ suborder	listed (PBDB)		13	197 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Acipenseridae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		113	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Errolichthyidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	252 Ma Permian	252 Ma Permian
Polyodontidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Paddlefish	37	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Saurichthidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Acipenseristomi unranked clade	listed (PBDB)		11	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1940	Acipenseriformes Berg
1964	Acipenseriformes Estes p. 20
1970	Acipenseriformes Applegate p. 398
1981	Acipenseriformes Thurmond and Jones p. 81
1996	Acipenseriformes Grande and Bemis pp. 104-105
1999	Acipenseriformes Weems p. 53
2001	Acipenseriformes Peng et al. p. 11
2001	Acipenseriformes Purdy et al. p. 161
2002	Acipenseriformes Chhabra and Mishra p. 153
2002	Acipenseriformes Grande et al.

Year	Name and Author
2002	Acipenseriformes Sepkoski, Jr.
2003	Acipenseriformes Meyer and Zardoya
2006	Acipenseriformes Grande and Hilton p. 5
2006	Acipenseriformes Nelson
2011	Acipenseriformes Long p. 242
2012	Acipenseriformes Fierstine et al. p. 11
2013	Acipenseriformes Betancur-R. et al.
2018	Acipenseriformes Carnevale and Godfrey p. 163
2019	Acipenseriformes Ebersole et al. p. 150

References

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

Estes R. (1964) Fossil vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Lance Formation, eastern Wyoming, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 49, 1-187

Applegate S. P. (1970) The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama, Fieldiana: Geology Memoires 3 8, 385-433

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

Grande L., Bemis W. E. (1996) Interrelationships of Acipenseriformes, with comments on "Chondrostei", In: M. L. J. Stiassny, L. R. Parenti & G. D. Johnson (eds.), Interrelationships of Fishes. Academic Press, San Diego, 85-115

Weems R. E. (1999) Part 4. Actinopterygian Fishes from the Fisher/Sullivan Site, Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Publication 152, 53-100

Peng J., Russell A. P., et al (2001) Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Natural History Occasional Paper 25, 1-54

Purdy R. W., Schneider V. P., et al (2001) The Neogene sharks, rays, and bony fishes from Lee Creek Mine, Aurora, North Carolina, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 90, 71-202

Chhabra N. L., Mishra V. P. (2002) Middle Triassic fish teeth from the Kalapani Limestone of Malla Johar, Chamoli District (Uttaranchal) 47, 151-155

Grande L., Jin F., et al (2002) Protopsephurus liui, a Well-Preserved Primitive Paddlefish (Acipenseriformes: Polyodontidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of China, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22 2, 209-237

Meyer A., Zardoya R. (2003) Recent advances in the (molecular) phylogeny of vertebrates, Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 34, 311-338

Grande L., Hilton E. J. (2006) An exquisitely preserved skeleton representing a primitive sturgeon from the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation of Montana (Acipenseriformes: Acipenseridae: n. gen. and sp.), The Paleontological Society Memoir 65, Journal of Paleontology 80 4, suppl., 1-39

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

Betancur-R. R., Broughton R. E., et al (2013) The tree of life and a new classification of bony fishes, PLOS Currents Tree of Life doi:10.1371/currents.tol.53ba26640df0ccaee75bb165c8c26288

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

Ebersole J. A., Cicimurri D. J., et al (2019) Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths, European Journal of Taxonomy 585, 1-274 doi:10.5852/ejt.2019.585

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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