†family Pycnodontidae Agassiz 1833 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae

Alternative spellings: Pycnodontes, Pycnodontes

Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1833. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome I (1re livraison) 1-16

Parent taxon: Pycnodontoidei according to J. R. Nursall 1996

See also Applegate 1970, Arambourg and Bertin 1958, Bannikov 2014, Carnevale et al. 2014, Case and Schwimmer 1988, Casier 1966, Cope 1877, Cope 1878, Cope 1887, Ebersole et al. 2019, Forey et al. 2003, Gardiner 1960, Goodwin et al. 1999, Hay 1902, Jordan 1963, Kumar and Loyal 1987, Owen 1859, Poyato-Ariza 2010, Rapp 1946, Sahni and Mishra 1975, Shimada et al. 2006, Thurmond and Jones 1981, Weems 1999, Woodward 1895 and Woodward 1916

Sister taxa: Brembodontidae, Eomesodon

Subtaxa: 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 Pycnodus Pycnomicrodon Rhinopycnodus Sphaerodus Stemmatodus Typodus Xenopholis

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Ecology: nektonic durophage-carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of United States (3: Florida, Texas collections)

• Eocene of Belgium (4), Egypt (1), France (1), India (6), Italy (1), Mali (1), Pakistan (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (7: Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia)

• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1), Mali (2)

• Paleocene of Mali (1), Mexico (2), Niger (1), Saudi Arabia (5), Spain (1), Togo (1), United States (1: South Carolina)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Mali (2), United States (1: Arkansas)

• Cretaceous of Algeria (4), Argentina (2), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Bolivia (2), Brazil (7), Canada (2: Saskatchewan), the Congo-Brazzaville (1), Croatia (2), Denmark (1), Egypt (5), France (9), Germany (4), Greece (1), India (15), Italy (11), Jordan (1), Lebanon (18), Libya (1), Madagascar (1), Mali (2), Mexico (6), Morocco (7), Niger (10), Palestinian Territory (1), Portugal (2), Romania (1), Slovenia (3), Spain (9), Sweden (5), Switzerland (10), Syria (5), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (76: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (4), Venezuela (1)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of France (3), Morocco (1)

• Jurassic of Belgium (1), Ethiopia (1), France (9), Germany (2), Poland (1), Portugal (3), the United Kingdom (10)

• Triassic of France (1), Hungary (1), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 320 collections including 407 occurrences

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