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Cyprinodontidae
Taxonomy
Cyprinodontidae is a family. It is extant.
It was synonymized subjectively with Poeciliidae by Hay (1902).
It was assigned to Cyprinodontes by Jordan (1963); to Cyprinodontoidei by Betancur et al. (2013); and to Cyprinodontiformes by Nelson et al. (2016).
It was synonymized subjectively with Poeciliidae by Hay (1902).
It was assigned to Cyprinodontes by Jordan (1963); to Cyprinodontoidei by Betancur et al. (2013); and to Cyprinodontiformes by Nelson et al. (2016).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1963 | Cyprinodontidae Jordan p. 658 |
| 2013 | Cyprinodontidae Betancur et al. |
| 2016 | Cyprinodontidae Nelson et al. p. 375 |
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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. Cyprinodontidae
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G. Aphanius Nardo 1827 [nono]
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†Aphanius crassicaudus Agassiz 1839
†Aphanius yerevanicus Vasilyan et al. 2009
G. Cyprinodon Lacépède 1803
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†Cyprinodon breviradius Miller 1945
†Cyprinodon primulus Cockerell 1936
G. †Cyprinodontidarum Unknown
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†Cyprinodontidarum angulosus Steurbaut 1979
†Cyprinodontidarum feistae Steurbaut 1980
†Cyprinodontidarum labretensis Steurbaut 1979
†Cyprinodontidarum obesus Steurbaut 1979
G. †Lebias Agassiz 1832
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†Lebias cephalotes Agassiz 1839
†Lebias crassicaudus Agassiz 1839
†Lebias gaudryi Sauvage 1873
†Lebias gobio Agassiz 1839
†Lebias meyeri Agassiz 1839
†Lebias perpusillus Agassiz 1832
G. †Parafundulus Eastman
G. †Trichophanes Cope 1872
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†Trichophanes copei Osborn et al. 1878
†Trichophanes foliarum Cope 1878
†Trichophanes hians Cope 1872
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Paleocene to the top of the Gelasian or 58.70000 to 1.80600 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 55.8 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 55.8 Ma
Collections (41 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Paleocene | Argentina (Jujuy) | Cyprinodon primulus (151867) | |
| Lutetian | Pakistan (North-West Frontier) | Cyprinodontidae indet. (28978) | |
| Priabonian | USA (California) | Cyprinodon breviradius (204522) | |
| Chattian | France (Bouches-Du-Rhone) | Prolebias sp. (113682) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | Greece (Aegean) | Cyprinodontidae indet. (207609) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Italy (Cuneo) | Aphanius crassicaudus (175903) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Armenia (Kotayk) | Aphanius yerevanicus (219043) | |
| Messinian | Italy | Aphanius crassicaudatus (210229) Aphanius crassicaudus (186577 210230 210231 210232 210233 210234 210235 210237 210239 210241 210242 210243 210244 210245 210246 210247 210248 210250 210252 210253 220507) | |
| Messinian | Italy (Piedmont) | Aphanius crassicaudus (113998) | |
| Messinian | Italy (Tuscany) | Aphanius crassicaudus (222139) | |
| Messinian | Italy (Emilia-Romagna) | Aphanius crassicaudus (210236) | |
| Messinian | Greece (Crete) | Aphanius crassicaudus (207362 207363) | |
| Messinian | Italy (Ravenna) | Aphanius crassicaudus (144566) | |
| Messinian | Spain | Aphanius crassicaudus (210672 210673 210674) | |
| Ruscinian | Spain (Granada) | Cyprinodontidae indet. (35252) | |
| Pliocene | Spain (Granada) | Cyprinodontidae indet. (35259) | |
| Gelasian | Greece (Rhodes) | Aphanius sp. (207579) |