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Elopopsis

Actinopteri - Crossognathiformes - Pachyrhizodontidae

Taxonomy

Elopopsis is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Elopidae by Woodward (1901); to Crossognathiformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Pachyrhizodontidae by Nagrodski et al. (2012).

Species

E. crassus, E. fenxli, E. heckeli, E. smithwoodwardi, E. ziegleri

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1901	Elopopsis Woodward p. 8
2002	Elopopsis Sepkoski
2012	Elopopsis Nagrodski et al. p. 82

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
superclass	Actinopterygii	()

Rank	Name	Author
class	Actinopteri	()
subclass	Neopterygii	(Regan 1923)
—	Teleosteomorpha
—	Teleostei	(Müller 1846)
order	Crossognathiformes	Taverne 1989
suborder	Pachyrhizodontoidei	Forey 1977
family	Pachyrhizodontidae	Cope 1872
genus	Elopopsis

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.

G. †Elopopsis

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†Elopopsis crassus Dixon 1850

†Elopopsis fenxli Heckel 1856

†Elopopsis heckeli Reuss 1857

†Elopopsis smithwoodwardi Bayer 1905

†Elopopsis ziegleri von der Marck 1868

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

marinesubp

Locomotion:

actively mobileo

Life habit:

nektonico

Diet:

carnivoreo

Created:

2009-07-20 21:12:03

Modified:

2009-07-20 23:12:03

Source: o = order, subp = subphylum

References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Cenomanian to the top of the Turonian or 99.60000 to 89.80000 Ma

Collections (10 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	United Kingdom (England)	E. crassus (159610)
Cenomanian - Turonian	100.5 - 89.8	United Kingdom (England)	E. crassus (238510)
Late/Upper Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Slovenia	E. sp. (221237)
Late/Upper Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	USA (Colorado)	E. sp. (132505)
Middle Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	United Kingdom (England)	E. crassus (238509)
Middle Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	USA (Colorado)	E. sp. (213403)
Middle Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	USA (Nebraska)	E. sp. (213308)
Middle Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Canada (Saskatchewan)	E. sp. (22731 52997)
Late/Upper Turonian	93.5 - 89.3	Germany	E. ziegleri (221723)