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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	94889	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=94889

Rank

class (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri

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
subclass	Actinopteri

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Actinopteri	subclass	belongs to Pisces	stated without evidence	Cope, 1871
Actinopteri	superorder	belongs to Teleostomi	stated without evidence	Cope, 1887
Actinopteri	subclass	belongs to Pisces	stated without evidence	Jordan, 1963
Actinopteri	subclass	belongs to Actinopterygii	stated with evidence	Cartanyá, 1999
Actinopteri	infraclass	belongs to Actinopterygii	stated without evidence	Grande et al., 2002
Actinopteri	class	belongs to Actinopterygii	stated with evidence	Betancur-R et al., 2013

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

6,844

Extant Size (PBDB)

2,079 (30%)

First Recorded Appearance

388 - 382 Ma
Devonian

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Actinopterygii)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. D. Cope. 1871. Contribution to the Ichthyology of the Lesser Antilles. Transactions of the American Philosophcal Society, New Series 14(3):445-483

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Chondrostei subclass	listed (PBDB)	1,761	384 Ma Middle Devonian	0 Ma Extant
Neopterygii subclass	listed (PBDB)	10,834	296 Ma Permian	0 Ma Extant
Docopteri ✝ order	listed (PBDB)
Lysopteri ✝ order	listed (PBDB)
Merospondyli ✝ order	listed (PBDB)
Mesichthyes ✝ order	listed (PBDB)
Phthinobranchii ✝ order	listed (PBDB)
Plectospondyli order	listed (PBDB)			0 Ma Extant
Angatubichthys ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	265 Ma Permian	265 Ma Permian
Frederichthys ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	2	326 Ma Carboniferous	326 Ma Carboniferous
Melanecta ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Moythomasia ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	6	388 Ma Middle Devonian	383 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Woodichthys ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1871	Actinopteri Cope p. 449
1887	Actinopterygia Cope p. 1017
1902	Actinopteri Hay p. 364
1963	Actinopteri Jordan p. 611
1999	Actinopteri Cartanyá p. 540
2002	Actinopteri Grande et al.
2006	Actinopteri Grande and Hilton p. 5
2013	Actinopteri Betancur-R. et al.

References

Cope E. D. Contribution to the Ichthyology of the Lesser Antilles, Transactions of the American Philosophcal Society, New Series 14 3, 445-483

Cope E. D. Zittel's Manual of Palaeontology, The American Naturalist 21 11, 1014-1019

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

Jordan D. S. (1963) The Genera of Fishes and a Classification of Fishes, Stanford University Press, 1-816

Cartanyá J. (1999) An overview of the Middle Triassic actinopterygians from Alcover, Mont-ral and El Pinetell (Catalonia, Spain), Mesozoic Fishes 2 - Systematics and the Fossil Record 2, 535-551

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

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

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

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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