Acipenser Linnaeus 1758 (sturgeon)

Osteichthyes - Acipenseriformes - Acipenseridae

Synonym: Acipenses Linck 1790

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824

Parent taxon: Acipenseridae according to E. J. Hilton and L. Grande 2022

See also Casier 1966, Estes 1964, Estes 1969, Estes 1976, Grande and Bemis 1996, Grande and Hilton 2006, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Hay 1902, Jordan 1907, Leidy 1873, Leriche 1942, Nessov 1997, Purdy et al. 2001, Schultze et al. 2021, Sepkoski 2002, Weems 1999, Welton 2015 and Woodward 1895

Sister taxa: Acipenserinae, Boreiosturion, Husinae, Priscosturioninae, Propenser, Propenserinae, Psammorhynchinae, Pseudoscaphirhynchinae, Scaphirhynchinae

Subtaxa: Acipenser albertensis Acipenser amnisinferos Acipenser brevirostrum Acipenser eruciferus Acipenser fulvescens Acipenser gigantissimus Acipenser medirostris Acipenser molassicus Acipenser ornatus Acipenser oxyrhynchus Acipenser praeparatorum Acipenser toliapicus Acipenser tuberculosus

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Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Canada (2: Quebec collections), the Netherlands (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (5: California, Oregon, South Carolina)

• Pliocene of Moldova (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: North Carolina)

• Miocene to Pleistocene of the Netherlands (1)

• Miocene of Belgium (1), Denmark (1), the Netherlands (1), Panama (1), Ukraine (1), United States (6: Maryland, Nebraska, Virginia)

• Oligocene of Kazakhstan (1)

• Eocene of the United Kingdom (6), United States (1: Virginia)

• Paleocene of United States (5: Montana, North Dakota)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of Canada (27: Alberta, Saskatchewan), the Russian Federation (1), United States (35: Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming)

Total: 103 collections including 104 occurrences

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