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โ‡ฑ Amiiformes


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Amiiformes

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Description

The Amiiformes order of fish has only one extant species, the bowfin (Amia calva).


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)494https://www.gbif.org/species/494
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)35190https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35190
Rankorder
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopterygii : Amiiformes
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Amiiformes
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
superclassActinopterygii
classActinopteri
subclassNeopterygii
infraclassHolostei
orderAmiiformesHay 1929
Common Namebowfin
Scientific NameAmiiformes
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Amiiformesorderbelongs to Osteichthyesstated with evidenceEstes, 1964
Amiiformesorderbelongs to Holosteistated without evidenceThurmond and Jones, 1981
Amiiformesorderbelongs to HolosteiimpliedBryant, 1989
Amiiformesorderbelongs to Halecomorphistated with evidenceGrande and Bemis, 1998
Amiiformesorderbelongs to Actinopterygiistated without evidenceWeems, 1999
Amiiformesorderbelongs to Halecomorphistated with evidenceCartanyรก, 1999
Amiiformesorderbelongs to Osteichthyesstated without evidencePeng et al., 2001
Amiiformesorderbelongs to Osteichthyessecond handSepkoski, 2002
Amiiformesorderbelongs to Osteichthyesstated without evidencePearson et al., 2002
Amiiformesorderbelongs to Neopterygiistated without evidenceMeyer and Zardoya, 2003
Amiiformesorderbelongs to Halecomorphistated without evidenceKriwet, 2005
Amiiformesorderbelongs to Holosteistated without evidenceNelson, 2006
Amiiformesorderbelongs to Halecomorphistated without evidenceCavin et al., 2007
Amiiformesorderbelongs to Neopterygiistated without evidenceLong, 2011
Amiiformesorderbelongs to Holosteistated with evidenceBetancur-R et al., 2013
Amiiformesorderbelongs to Halecomorphistated without evidenceCarnevale and Godfrey, 2018
Status (PBDB)extant
Taxon Size (PBDB)100
Extant Size (PBDB)7 (7.0%)
First Recorded Appearance254 - 252 Ma
Permian
Environmentmarine (based on Vertebrata)
Motilityactively mobile
Dietcarnivore, piscivore
Taphonomyphosphatic (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
Common Name(s) Moddersnoeken, Bowfin
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiiformes

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
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Amioidei
suborder
listed (PBDB)0 Ma
Extant
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Amioidea
superfamily
listed (PBDB)5168 Ma
Middle Jurassic
113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
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Caturoidea โœ
superfamily
listed (PBDB)2247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
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Amiidae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
440242 Ma
Middle Triassic
0 Ma
Extant
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Caturidae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
57254 Ma
Permian
0 Ma
Extant
Dorypteridae
family
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Furidae
family
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Ionoscopidae
family
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Liodesmidae
family
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Macrosemiidae
family
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Ophiopsidae
family
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
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Palaeolabridae
family
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
783.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
63.3 Ma
Paleocene
Paracentrophoridae
family
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Parasemionotidae
family
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Promecosominidae
family
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Semionotidae
family
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Sinamiidae
family
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
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Ainia โœ
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1156 Ma
Jurassic
156 Ma
Jurassic
Allolepidotus
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
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Aphanepygus โœ
genus
listed (PBDB)
Eoeugnathus
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
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Eurypoma โœ
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1156 Ma
Jurassic
156 Ma
Jurassic
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Eusemius โœ
genus
listed (PBDB)
Gymnoichthys
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
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Ionoscopus โœ
genus
listed (PBDB)3161 Ma
Jurassic
145 Ma
Late Jurassic
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Leedsichthys โœ
genus
listed (PBDB)5168 Ma
Middle Jurassic
165 Ma
Middle Jurassic
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Oligopleura โœ
genus
listed (PBDB)
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Otomitla โœ
genus
listed (PBDB)
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Sinoeugnathus โœ
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1242 Ma
Middle Triassic
242 Ma
Middle Triassic
Stromerichthys
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB
Tomognathus
genus
accepted (GBIF)No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1929Amiiformes Hay
1964Amiiformes Estes p. 29
1981Amiiformes Thurmond and Jones p. 86
1988Amiiformes Case and Schwimmer p. 297
1989Amiiformes Bryant p. 22
1998Amiiformes Grande and Bemis p. 31
1999Amiiformes Cartanyรก p. 548
1999Amiiformes Weems p. 55
2001Amiiformes Peng et al. p. 14
YearName and Author
2002Amiiformes Pearson et al. p. 154
2002Amiiformes Sepkoski, Jr.
2003Amiiformes Meyer and Zardoya
2005Amiiformes Kriwet p. 101
2006Amiiformes Nelson
2007Amiiformes Cavin et al.
2011Amiiformes Long p. 242
2013Amiiformes Betancur-R. et al.
2018Amiiformes Carnevale and Godfrey p. 164

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
Thurmond J. T., Jones D. E. (1981) , Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama, 1-244
Case G. R., Schwimmer D. R. (1988) Late Cretaceous Fish from the Blufftown Formation (Campanian) in Western Georgia, Journal of Paleontology 62 2, 290-301
Bryant L. J. (1989) Non-dinosaurian lower vertebrates across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Montana, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 134, 1-107
Grande L., Bemis W. E. (1998) A comprehensive phylogenetic study of amiid fishes (Amiidae) based on comparative skeletal anatomy. An empirical search for interconnected patterns of natural history. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 4, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18 1, suppl., 1-690
Cartanyรก 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
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
Pearson D. A., Schaefer T., et al (2002) Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Hell Creek Formation in southwestern North Dakota and northwestern South Dakota, The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains: An Integrated Continental Record of the End of the Cretaceous, Geological Society of America Special Paper 361, 145-167
Meyer A., Zardoya R. (2003) Recent advances in the (molecular) phylogeny of vertebrates, Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 34, 311-338
Kriwet J. (2005) An amioid fish (Neopterygii, Amiiformes) from the Late Jurassic of the Iberian peninsula, Gรฉobios 38, 99-106
Nelson J. S. (2006) , Fishes of the world, 4th edition, 1-601
Cavin L., Suteethorn V., et al (2007) The first sinamiid fish (Holostei: Halecomorpha) from Southeast Asia (Early Cretaceous of Thailand), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 4, 827-837
Long J. A. (2011) , The Rise of Fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution (Second Edition), 1-287
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
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2019). Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2019. - via World Register of Marine Species
Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa. 3882(1): 1-230. - via World Register of Marine Species
Ruggiero, M. A., D. P. Gordon, T. M. Orrell, N. Bailly, T. Bourgoin, R. C. Brusca, et al., 2015: Correction: A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE vol. 10, no. 6, e0130114. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Nelson, Joseph S., 1994: null. Fishes of the World, Third Edition. xvii + 600. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
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