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Pycnodontoidea (disused)

Actinopteri

Taxonomy
Pycnodontoidea is a superfamily.

It was assigned to Holostei by Gardiner (1960).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1960Pycnodontoidea Gardiner p. 363

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
RankNameAuthor
—Osteichthyes()
superclassActinopterygii()
classActinopteri()
subclassNeopterygii(Regan 1923)
infraclassHolostei(Müller 1846)
superfamilyPycnodontoidea
superfamilyPycnodontoidea

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Superfm. †Pycnodontoidea
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2004-08-17 14:52:40
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:50:42
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum
Reference: Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Bathonian to the top of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 167.70000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Bathonian167.7 - 164.7United Kingdom (England) Pycnodontoidea indet. (39075)
Early/Lower Berriasian - Middle Berriasian145.0 - 140.2France (Poitou-Charentes) Pycnodontoidea indet. (61930)
Late/Upper Barremian130.0 - 125.45Spain (Cuenca) Pycnodontoidea indet. (61889)
Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian83.5 - 66.0Spain (Castilla-La Mancha) Pycnodontoidea indet. (91781)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Spain (Burgos) Pycnodontoidea indet. (213730)