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Pachycormus macropterus

Actinopteri - Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae

Taxonomy
Elops macropterus was named by de Blainville (1818). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Grandmont, Beaune, which is in a Toarcian marine marl in France.

It was recombined as Pachycormus macropterus by Agassiz (1833), Agassiz (1842), Agassiz (1843), Woodward (1895), Wenz (1967), Delsate (1997), Friedman et al. (2010), Wretman et al. (2016), Cawley et al. (2019), Weis et al. (2024).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1818Elops macropterus de Blainville p. 324
1832Uraeus gracilis Agassiz p. 142
1833Pachycormus macropterus Agassiz p. 12
1839Pachycormus curtus Agassiz figs. Pl 59
1842Pachycormus macropterus Agassiz figs. Pl 59a
1843Pachycormus macropterus Agassiz p. 111
1843Pachycormus curtus Agassiz p. 112
1843Pachycormus acutirostris Agassiz p. 114
1843Pachycormus latus Agassiz p. 114
1875Pachycormus elongatus Sauvage p. 23 figs. Pl 2, fig 1
1895Pachycormus macropterus Woodward p. 383
1895Pachycormus acutirostris Woodward p. 384
1895Pachycormus curtus Woodward p. 385
1948Pachycormus curtus Rayner p. 311 figs. 17-18
1967Pachycormus curtus Wenz p. 109 figs. Pl 25, figs A,D; pl 26, fig B; pl 27, figs A,B; pl 28, figs B,C; pl 29, figs C,D; pl 30; text-figs 5
1967Pachycormus macropterus Wenz p. 109 figs. Pl 24; pl 25, figs B-C; pl 26, fig A; pl 27, fig Cpl 28, fig A; pl 29, fig B; text-figs 51,52,57,59,
1997Pachycormus curtus Delsate p. 129
1997Pachycormus macropterus Delsate p. 129
2010Pachycormus curtus Friedman et al. p. S36
2010Pachycormus macropterus Friedman et al. p. S36
2016Pachycormus macropterus Wretman et al. p. 3
2019Pachycormus macropterus Cawley et al. p. 287 figs. 3-11
2024Pachycormus macropterus Weis et al. p. 5 figs. 1-4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
superclassActinopterygii()
RankNameAuthor
classActinopteri()
subclassNeopterygii(Regan 1923)
—Teleosteomorpha
—AspidorhyncheiNelson et al. 2016
orderPachycormiformesBerg 1940
familyPachycormidaeWoodward 1895
subfamilyAsthenocorminae
genusPachycormus
speciesmacropterus()

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.

†Pachycormus macropterus de Blainville 1818
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Invalid names: Pachycormus acutirostris Agassiz 1843 [synonym], Pachycormus curtus Agassiz 1839 [synonym], Pachycormus elongatus Sauvage 1875 [synonym], Pachycormus latus Agassiz 1843 [synonym], Uraeus gracilis Agassiz 1832 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoref
Created: 2009-07-20 21:09:52
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:09:52
Source: f = family, o = order, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Falciferum to the top of the Early/Lower Toarcian or 184.20000 to 182.90000 Ma

Collections (21 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Toarcian184.2 - 182.9Germany (Baden-Württenburg) Pachycormus macropterus (91672)
Early/Lower Toarcian184.2 - 182.9Germany Elops macropterus, Pachycormus curtus (122170)
Early/Lower Toarcian184.2 - 182.9Luxembourg Pachycormus macropterus (233565)
Early/Lower Toarcian184.2 - 182.9France Elops macropterus, Pachycormus macropterus, Pachycormus curtus (122732) Pachycormus curtus (122733 122735) Pachycormus macropterus, Pachycormus curtus (122731)
Falciferum184.2 - 182.9France Pachycormus elongatus (122734)
Falciferum184.2 - 182.9United Kingdom (England) Pachycormus macropterus (132646)
Falciferum184.2 - 182.9Luxembourg Pachycormus macropterus (233564)
Falciferum184.2 - 182.9Luxembourg (Mondercange) Pachycormus macropterus (224066 233563)
Toarcian184.2 - 174.7France Poisson indet. (type locality: 122738)
Toarcian184.2 - 174.7Germany Elops macropterus, Pachycormus curtus (122169 131924)
Toarcian184.2 - 174.7Germany (Würtemberg) Elops macropterus, Pachycormus curtus (122171)
Toarcian184.2 - 174.7United Kingdom (England) Pachycormus curtus, Pachycormus acutirostris (122167 122372 122373)
Toarcian184.2 - 174.7United Kingdom Elops macropterus (132036) Pachycormus curtus (131929)