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Dapalis

Actinopteri - Ambassidae

Taxonomy
Dapalis was named by Gistl (1848) [Sepkoski's age data: T Than T Mi-m Sepkoski's reference number: 560]. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Serranidae by Khajuria and Prasad (1998); to Perciformes by Sepkoski (2002); to Chandidae by Schwarzhans (2007); and to Ambassidae by Schwarzhans (1980), Schwarzhans (1985) and Gaudant et al. (2018).

Species
D. antipodus, D. meldertensis
Species lacking formal opinion data
D. antipodes, D. macrurus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1848Dapalis Gistl
1980Dapalis Schwarzhans p. 187
1985Dapalis Schwarzhans p. 44
1998Dapalis Khajuria and Prasad
2002Dapalis Sepkoski
2007Dapalis Schwarzhans p. 343
2018Dapalis Gaudant et al. p. 467

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
superclassActinopterygii()
classActinopteri()
subclassNeopterygii(Regan 1923)
—Teleosteomorpha
—Teleostei(Müller 1846)
RankNameAuthor
—Osteoglossocephalai
—ClupeocephalaPatterson and Rosen 1977
—Euteleosteomorpha
—NeoteleosteiRosen 1973
—Eurypterygia(Rosen 1973)
—Ctenosquamata
—Acanthomorphata(Rosen 1973)
—Euacanthomorphacea
—Percomorphaceae
—Carangimorpharia
—Ovalentariae
familyAmbassidae
genusDapalisGistl 1848

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. †Dapalis Gistl 1848
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†Dapalis antipodus Schwarzhans 1980
†Dapalis meldertensis Nolf 1972
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: omnivoreo
Created: 2009-07-20 20:44:22
Modified: 2009-07-20 22:44:22
Source: o = order, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian to the top of the Burdigalian or 70.60000 to 15.97000 Ma

Collections (12 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0India (Andhra Pradesh) D. sp., D. erici (122240)
Thanetian59.2 - 56.0Australia (South Australia) D. sp. (219145)
Eocene56.0 - 33.9France Pagrosomus meldertensis (220174)
Mangaorapan53.0 - 49.5New Zealand (South Island) Ambassis antipodus (219499)
Mangaorapan - Heretaungan53.0 - 46.2New Zealand (South Island) Ambassis antipodus (219501)
Heretaungan49.5 - 46.2New Zealand (South Island) Ambassis antipodus (219498)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3Germany (Lower Saxony,) D. meldertensis (188954)
Bortonian42.6 - 39.1New Zealand (South Island) D. antipodes (205332) D. sp. (219322)
MP 2433.9 - 28.4France (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) D. macrurus (68876)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03France (Bouches-Du-Rhone) D. minutus, D. macrurus, D. sp. (113682)
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97Germany (Baden-Württemberg) D. curvirostris, D. formosus (69098)