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Pycnodontidae
Taxonomy
Pycnodontes was named by Agassiz (1833).
It was reranked as the suborder Pycnodontes by Owen (1859); it was corrected as Pycnodontidae by Cope (1877), Cope (1878), Cope (1887), Woodward (1895), Hay (1902), Woodward (1916), Rapp (1946), Arambourg and Bertin (1958), Gardiner (1960), Jordan (1963), Casier (1966), Applegate (1970), Sahni and Mishra (1975), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Kumar and Loyal (1987), Case and Schwimmer (1988), Nursall (1996), Weems (1999), Goodwin et al. (1999), Forey et al. (2003), Shimada et al. (2006), Poyato-Ariza (2010), Carnevale et al. (2014), Bannikov (2014), Ebersole et al. (2019), Sarr et al. (2024).
It was assigned to Ganoidei by Owen (1859); to Isospondyli by Cope (1877), Cope (1878); to Merospondyli by Cope (1887); to Protospondyli by Woodward (1895); to Actinopterygii by Woodward (1916); to Semionotiformes by Arambourg and Bertin (1958); to Pycnodontoidea by Gardiner (1960); to Pycnodonti by Hay (1902), Rapp (1946), Jordan (1963); to Pycnodontoidei by Casier (1966), Nursall (1996), Forey et al. (2003); and to Pycnodontiformes by Applegate (1970), Sahni and Mishra (1975), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Kumar and Loyal (1987), Case and Schwimmer (1988), Weems (1999), Goodwin et al. (1999), Shimada et al. (2006), Poyato-Ariza (2010), Carnevale et al. (2014), Bannikov (2014), Ebersole et al. (2019), Sarr et al. (2024).
It was reranked as the suborder Pycnodontes by Owen (1859); it was corrected as Pycnodontidae by Cope (1877), Cope (1878), Cope (1887), Woodward (1895), Hay (1902), Woodward (1916), Rapp (1946), Arambourg and Bertin (1958), Gardiner (1960), Jordan (1963), Casier (1966), Applegate (1970), Sahni and Mishra (1975), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Kumar and Loyal (1987), Case and Schwimmer (1988), Nursall (1996), Weems (1999), Goodwin et al. (1999), Forey et al. (2003), Shimada et al. (2006), Poyato-Ariza (2010), Carnevale et al. (2014), Bannikov (2014), Ebersole et al. (2019), Sarr et al. (2024).
It was assigned to Ganoidei by Owen (1859); to Isospondyli by Cope (1877), Cope (1878); to Merospondyli by Cope (1887); to Protospondyli by Woodward (1895); to Actinopterygii by Woodward (1916); to Semionotiformes by Arambourg and Bertin (1958); to Pycnodontoidea by Gardiner (1960); to Pycnodonti by Hay (1902), Rapp (1946), Jordan (1963); to Pycnodontoidei by Casier (1966), Nursall (1996), Forey et al. (2003); and to Pycnodontiformes by Applegate (1970), Sahni and Mishra (1975), Thurmond and Jones (1981), Kumar and Loyal (1987), Case and Schwimmer (1988), Weems (1999), Goodwin et al. (1999), Shimada et al. (2006), Poyato-Ariza (2010), Carnevale et al. (2014), Bannikov (2014), Ebersole et al. (2019), Sarr et al. (2024).
Subtaxa
Acrotemnus (syn. Macropycnodon), Agoultpycnodus, Anomoeodus, Athrodon, Brauccipycnodus, Callodus, Costapycnodus, Flagellipinna, Gregoriopycnodus, Hadrodus, Haqelpycnodus, Njoerdichthys, Nonaphalagodus, Nursalliinae, Omphalodus, Polypsephis (syn. Microdon), Proscincetes, Pycnodontinae, Pycnodus, Pycnomicrodon, Rhinopycnodus, Sphaerodus, Stemmatodus, Typodus (syn. Mesodon), Xenopholis