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Paralepidotus ornatus

Actinopteri - Semionotiformes - Callipurbeckiidae

Taxonomy
Lepidotes ornatus was named by Agassiz (1832). It is the type species of Paralepidotus.

It was recombined as Lepidotus ornatus by Agassiz (1833), Agassiz (1834), Agassiz (1837) and Kner (1866); it was recombined as Colobodus ornatus by Bassani (1895), Woodward (1895), Gorjanovic-Kramberger (1905) and de Alessandri (1920); it was recombined as Paralepidotus ornatus by Tintori and Olivetti (1988), Tintori (1996), López-Arbarello (2012) and Hornung et al. (2019).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1832Lepidotes ornatus Agassiz p. 145
1833Lepidotus ornatus Agassiz p. 9
1834Lepidotus ornatus Agassiz figs. Pl 32, figs 1,2
1837Lepidotus ornatus Agassiz p. 249
1853Semionotus curtulus Costa p. 294 figs. Pl 7, fig 6; pl 8, fig 2
1853Lepidotus acutirostris Costa p. 301 figs. Pl 8, fig 1A
1857Lepidotus spinifer Bellotti p. 421
1866Lepidotus ornatus Kner p. 313
1891Lepidotus triumplinorum de Zigno p. 54 figs. Pl 1, figs 1,2
1895Colobodus ornatus Bassani p. 187 figs. Pl 12, figs 8,9; pl 13, fig 1; pl 14; pl 15, figs 4-30
1895Colobodus ornatus Woodward p. 72
1905Colobodus elongatus Gorjanovic-Kramberger p. 16 figs. Pl 3, fig 1
1905Colobodus ornatus Gorjanovic-Kramberger p. 199
1905Heterolepidotus parvulus Gorjanovic-Kramberger p. 214 figs. Pl 4, fig 2
1920Colobodus ornatus de Alessandri p. 86 figs. Pl 3; text-fig
1988Paralepidotus ornatus Tintori and Olivetti p. 39 figs. 1-4
1996Paralepidotus ornatus Tintori p. 171 figs. 1-6
2012Paralepidotus ornatus López-Arbarello p. 5
2019Paralepidotus ornatus Hornung et al. p. 146 fig. 18,19

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
superclassActinopterygii()
RankNameAuthor
classActinopteri()
subclassNeopterygii(Regan 1923)
infraclassHolostei(Müller 1846)
—Ginglymodi(Cope 1871)
orderSemionotiformes
familyCallipurbeckiidae
genusParalepidotus
speciesornatus()

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.

†Paralepidotus ornatus Agassiz 1832
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Invalid names: Colobodus elongatus Gorjanovic-Kramberger 1905 [synonym], Heterolepidotus parvulus Gorjanovic-Kramberger 1905 [synonym], Lepidotus acutirostris Costa 1853 [synonym], Lepidotus spinifer Bellotti 1857 [synonym], Lepidotus triumplinorum de Zigno 1891 [synonym], Semionotus curtulus Costa 1853 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: durophageo
Diet 2: carnivoreo
Created: 2009-07-20 21:41:44
Modified: 2013-12-06 12:03:17
Source: o = order, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Anisian to the top of the Alaunian or 247.20000 to 212.00000 Ma

Collections (24 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Anisian - Ladinian247.2 - 237.0France (Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur Region) Paralepidotus ornatus (31768)
Julian235.0 - 232.0Italy Lepidotus ornatus (122361)
Norian228.0 - 208.5Italy Colobodus ornatus (153117) Lepidotus triumplinorum (153107) Paralepidotus ornatus (151256)
Alaunian215.56 - 212.0Austria Colobodus ornatus, Colobodus elongatus, Heterolepidotus parvulus, Heterolepidotus dorsalis (122455) Paralepidotus ornatus (155734 207544 207545 207546 207547)
Alaunian215.56 - 212.0Italy Colobodus latus (153115) Colobodus ornatus (153112) Colobodus ornatus, Lepidotus acutirostris (153108) Paralepidotus ornatus (122456 122458 148371 148373 148374 148375 148376 148379)
Alaunian215.56 - 212.0Austria (Tirol) Lepidotus ornatus (130601 130602)