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Diplocercididae

Osteichthyes - Diplocercididae

Taxonomy
Diplocercidae was named by Berg (1940). It is not extant. Its type is Diplocercides.

It was corrected as Diplocercididae by van der Laan (2019).

It was assigned to Diplocercidoidei by Schultze (2004); to Coelacanthiformes by Nelson et al. (2016); and to Actinistia by van der Laan (2019).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1940Diplocercidae Berg
1966Euporosteidae Romer p. 362
2004Diplocercidae Schultze p. 466
2016Diplocercidae Nelson et al. p. 104
2019Diplocercididae van der Laan p. 87

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
RankNameAuthor
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
infraclassActinistia(Cope 1870)
familyDiplocercididae(Berg 1940)
familyDiplocercididae(Berg 1940)

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.

Fm. †Diplocercididae Berg 1940
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G. †Diplocercides Stensio 1922
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Diplocercides davisi Moy-Thomas 1937
Diplocercides jaekeli Stensio 1922
Diplocercides kayseri von Koenen 1895
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Invalid names: Holoptychius kayseri von Koenen 1895 [replaced], Nesides schmidti Stensio 1937 [synonym]
Invalid names: Nesides Stensio 1937 [synonym]
G. †Euporosteus Jaekel 1927
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Euporosteus eifeliensis Jaekel 1927
Euporosteus yunnanensis Lu et al. 2012
Invalid names: Euporosteidae Romer 1966 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2009-07-20 21:50:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:50:54
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Pragian to the top of the Middle Frasnian or 413.02000 to 375.20000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Pragian413.02 - 410.62China (Yunnan) Euporosteus yunnanensis (196858)
Early/Lower Givetian387.95 - 385.9Germany Euporosteus eifeliensis (107420)
Late/Upper Givetian - Early/Lower Frasnian383.4 - 379.0Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) Diplocercides heiligenstockiensis (197071)
Frasnian382.31 - 372.15Germany Diplocercides jaekeli (145664) Holoptychius kayseri (233181)
Middle Frasnian379.0 - 375.2Poland (Swietokrzyskie Voivodship) Diplocercides sp. (226394)