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Perca cyprinodon
Taxonomy
Perca cyprinodon was named by de Blainville (1818). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Montmartre, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial horizon in France.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Entered
by D. Sinopoli (authorized by M. Uhen) on 2026-05-06; modified by D. Sinopoli on 2026-05-06
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1818 | Perca cyprinodon de Blainville p. 375 |
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†Perca cyprinodon de Blainville 1818
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| H. D. de Blainville 1818 | Perca {nobis) cyprinodon '? Cuv., Loc. cit. fig. i4- M. Cuvier regarding the anterior portion of the skeleton of a fish whose head, rather large, terminates a short body, and which, moreover, shows no trace of a dorsal fin or tail, as having belonged to the section of abdominal fishes near the cyprinodons of M. de Lacèpède. The shape of the body and head, the brevity of the visceral cavity, would rather lead me to think that it is a thoracic fish, which seems to me to be supported by the position of the posterior fin and even by the first two rays of the anal fin, which appear to me to be spiny. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, o = order, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: Priabonian or 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Priabonian | France (Ile-de-France Region) | Perca cyprinodon (type locality: 31739) |