Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1833. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome II (1re livraison) 1-48
Parent taxon: Pycnodontidae according to J. A. Ebersole et al. 2019
See also Agassiz 1835, Bannikov 2014, Cantalice et al. 2019, Carnevale et al. 2014, Casier 1946, Casier 1966, Cope 1878, Goodwin et al. 1999, Hay 1902, Kumar and Loyal 1987, Leidy 1873, Maisch et al. 2016, Nursall 1996, Rapp 1946, Sahni and Mishra 1975, Sepkoski 2002, Weems 1998, Weems 1999 and Woodward 1895
Sister taxa: Abdobalistum, Acrotemnus, Agoultpycnodus, Anomoeodus, Athrodon, Brauccipycnodus, Callodus, Coccodus, Coelodus, Costapycnodus, Flagellipinna, Gregoriopycnodus, Hadrodus, Haqelpycnodus, Iemanja, Macromesodon, Neoproscinetes, Njoerdichthys, Nonaphalagodus, Nursalliinae, Omphalodus, Polypsephis, Proscincetes, Proscinetes, Pycnodontinae, Pycnomicrodon, Rhinopycnodus, Sphaerodus, Stemmatodus, Typodus, Xenopholis
Subtaxa: Pycnodus angustus Pycnodus apodus Pycnodus bicresta Pycnodus bowerbanki Pycnodus carolinensis Pycnodus comminuens Pycnodus complanatus Pycnodus couloni Pycnodus cretaceus Pycnodus depressus Pycnodus didymus Pycnodus flabellatus Pycnodus gigas Pycnodus granulatus Pycnodus hugii Pycnodus jugleri Pycnodus lametae Pycnodus latior Pycnodus latirostris Pycnodus mantellii Pycnodus minutus Pycnodus munsteri Pycnodus nicoleti Pycnodus orbicularis Pycnodus ovalis Pycnodus parallelus Pycnodus planidens Pycnodus platessus Pycnodus praecursor Pycnodus preufsii Pycnodus priscus Pycnodus robustus Pycnodus toliapicus Pycnodus umbonatus Pycnodus variabilis
Ecology: nektonic durophage-carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Belgium (4 collections), Egypt (1), India (5), Italy (1), Mali (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (6: Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia)
• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1), Mali (2)
• Paleocene of Mali (1), Mexico (2), Niger (1), Saudi Arabia (5), Togo (1), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Mali (1)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (4), Brazil (2), France (4), India (10), Italy (1), Mali (1), Morocco (1), Niger (1), Portugal (1), Switzerland (10), the United Kingdom (1)
• Jurassic of Ethiopia (1), France (1), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 79 collections including 96 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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