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Dactylopteriformes

Amphibia - Dactylopteriformes

Taxonomy
Dactylopteriformes was named as an order. It is extant.

It was reranked as the unranked clade Dactylopteriformes by Jordan (1963).

It was assigned to Cataphracti by Jordan (1963); to Osteichthyes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Percomorpha by Bannikov (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1963Dactylopteriformes Jordan p. 717
2002Dactylopteriformes Sepkoski
2014Dactylopteriformes Bannikov p. 27

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomPlantae
subkingdomEmbryophyta
classAmphibia
EuteleosteiRosen 1973
phylumSphenophyta
RankNameAuthor
superorderAcanthopterygii
Percomorpha
orderDactylopteriformes
orderDactylopteriformes

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.

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Fm. †Cephalacanthidae Berg 1940
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G. †Cephalacanthus Lacépède 1802
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G. †Pterygocephalus Agassiz 1835
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Pterygocephalus paradoxus Agassiz 1835
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Life habit: scansorialsubc
Dispersal: waterc
Created: 2005-03-06 14:47:58
Modified: 2005-03-06 16:47:58
Source: subc = subclass, c = class
References: Ji et al. 2002, Uhen 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Burdigalian or 56.00000 to 15.97000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 47.8 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Italy Pterygocephalus paradoxus (94830)
Rupelian33.9 - 28.1Romania Cephalacanthus trispinosus (113962)
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97France Dactyloptena sp. (220042)