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Osteoglossomorpha

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	92053	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=92053

Rank

superorder (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Osteoglossomorpha

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
-	Osteoglossocephala
superorder	Osteoglossomorpha	Greenwood et al. 1966

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Osteoglossomorpha	superorder	belongs to Teleostei	stated without evidence	Guo-Qing and Wilson, 1994
Osteoglossomorpha	superorder	belongs to Osteoglossocephala	stated with evidence	Betancur-R et al., 2013
Osteoglossomorpha	superorder	belongs to Teleostei	stated without evidence	Bannikov, 2014
Osteoglossomorpha	superorder	belongs to Osteoglossocephala	stated without evidence	Ebersole et al., 2019

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

19 (22%)

First Recorded Appearance

168 - 166 Ma
Middle Jurassic

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Actinopterygii)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. H. Greenwood, D. E. Rosen, and S. H. Weitzman, G. S. Myers. 1966. Phyletic studies of teleostean fishes, with a provisional classification of living forms. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 131(4):339-456

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Hiodontiformes order	listed (PBDB)	17	145 Ma Late Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Osteoglossiformes order	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	131	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Chandlerichthys ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Joffrichthys ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	3	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	56.8 Ma Paleocene
Shuleichthys ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	145 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1966	Osteoglossomorpha Greenwood et al. p. 351
1994	Osteoglossomorpha Guo-Qing and Wilson
1997	Osteoglossomorpha Guo-Qing and Grande
2000	Osteoglossomorpha Newbrey and Bozek p. 13
2006	Osteoglossomorpha Nelson
2010	Osteoglossomorpha Murray et al.
2013	Osteoglossomorpha Betancur-R. et al.
2014	Osteoglossomorpha Bannikov p. 25
2019	Osteoglossomorpha Ebersole et al. p. 164

References

Greenwood P. H., Rosen D. E., et al (1966) Phyletic studies of teleostean fishes, with a provisional classification of living forms, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 131 4, 339-456

Guo-Qing L., Wilson M. V. H. (1994) An Eocene Species of Hiodon from Montana, Its Phylogenetic Relationships, and the Evolution of the Postcranial Skeleton in the Hiodontidae (Teleostei), Journal of Paleontology 14 2, 153-162

Guo-Qing L., Grande L. (1997) The Species of †Phareodus (Teleostei: Osteoglossidae) from the Eocene of North America and Their Phylogenetic Relationships, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17 3, 487-505

Newbrey M. G., Bozek M. A. (2000) A new species of Joffrichthys (Teleostei: Osteoglossidae) from the Sentinel Butte Formation, (Paleocene) of North Dakota, USA, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20 1, 12-20

Nelson J. S. (2006) , Fishes of the world, 4th edition, 1-601

Murray A. M., You H. L., et al (2010) A New Cretaceous Osteoglossomorph Fish from Gansu Province, China, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 2, 322-332

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

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

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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