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Acanthopterygii

Actinopteri

Taxonomy

Acanthopterygii was named as a superorder. It is extant.

It was reranked as the suborder Acanthopterygii by Woodward (1902); it was reranked as the order Acanthopterygii by Jaekel (1911).

It was assigned to Actinopterygii by Woodward (1902); to Teleostea by Jaekel (1911); to Ostariophysi by Jordan (1963); to Acanthomorpha by Nolf and Dockery (1990) and Forey et al. (2003); to Actinopterygii by Martinelli and Forasiepi (2004); to Teleostei by Nelson (2006); to Euteleosteii by Long (2011); and to Euteleostei by Bannikov (2014) and Nelson et al. (2016).

Subtaxa

Acanthoessus, Aulostomi, Berycida, Caprosimilis, Cataphracti, Cetomimiformes, Choichix, Euacanthopterygii, Gigapteryx, Holconoti, Hypostomides, Labyrinthici, Thoracostei, Xenoberyces, Zeoidei

Synonyms

Acanthoessus was named by Agassiz (1832).

It was considered a nomen nudum by Agassiz (1832).

It was assigned to Acanthoessidae by Hay (1902) and Jordan (1963).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1832	Acanthoessus Agassiz p. 149
1902	Acanthoessus Hay p. 273
1902	Acanthopterygii Woodward p. 3
1911	Acanthopterygii Jaekel p. 95
1963	Acanthoessus Jordan p. 591
1963	Acanthopterygii Jordan p. 671
1990	Acanthopterygii Nolf and Dockery III p. 8
2003	Acanthopterygii Forey et al. p. 229
2004	Acanthopterygii Martinelli and Forasiepi p. 260
2006	Acanthopterygii Nelson
2011	Acanthopterygii Long p. 243
2014	Acanthopterygii Bannikov p. 26
2016	Acanthopterygii Nelson et al. p. 302

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
superclass	Actinopterygii	()

Rank	Name	Author
class	Actinopteri	()
subclass	Neopterygii	(Regan 1923)
—	Teleosteomorpha
—	Teleostei	(Müller 1846)
—	Osteoglossocephalai
—	Clupeocephala	Patterson and Rosen 1977
—	Euteleostei	Rosen 1973
superorder	Acanthopterygii
superorder	Acanthopterygii

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.

Superor. Acanthopterygii

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Unr. Berycida

Invalid names: Batrachoidida [empty]

G. †Caprosimilis Bienkowska-Wasiluk and Bonde 2015

†Caprosimilis carpathicus Bienkowska-Wasiluk and Bonde 2015

Or. Cataphracti Jordan 1963

Unr. Cottiformes

Invalid names: Abyssocottidae [empty], Ascelichthyidae [empty], Aspidophoroididae [empty], Blepsiidae [empty], Comephoridae [empty], Cottocomerphoridae [empty], Hemitripteridae [empty], Icelidae [empty], Neophrynichthyidae [empty], Synchridae [empty]

Unr. Cyclopteriformes

Invalid names: Liparopidae [empty]

Unr. Hexagrammiformes

Fm. Ophiodontidae

G. †Ozymandias Jordan and Gilbert 1919

†Ozymandias gilberti Jordan and Gilbert 1919

Invalid names: Anoplopomidae [empty], Erilepidae [empty], Oxylebiidae [empty]

Invalid names: Platycephaliformes Jordan 1963 [empty], Trigliformes [empty]

G. †Choichix Cantalice et al. 2021

†Choichix alvaradoi Cantalice et al. 2021

G. †Gigapteryx Forey et al. 2003

†Gigapteryx tethyestris Forey et al. 2003

Or. Holconoti

Invalid names: Hysterocarpidae [empty]

Or. †Labyrinthici

Invalid names: Cirrhitoidei [empty], Helostomidae [empty], Luciocephalidae [empty], Ophicephalidae [empty], Polyacanthidae [empty]

Or. Thoracostei

Subor. Hemibranchii

Invalid names: Protosyngnathidae [empty]

Invalid names: Lophobranchi Cuvier [empty]

Invalid names: Acanthoessus Agassiz 1832 [nomen nudum], Aulostomi Cuvier [empty], Cetomimiformes [empty], Euacanthopterygii Johnson and Patterson 1993 [empty], Hypostomides [empty], Xenoberyces [empty], Zeoidei [empty]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

marinesubp

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Created:

2004-08-17 14:52:40

Modified:

2009-07-20 23:50:42

Source: c = class, subp = subphylum

Reference: Carroll 1988

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Middle Cenomanian to the top of the Late/Upper Pliocene or 99.60000 to 2.58800 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.5 Ma

Collections (10 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Mexico (Chiapas)	Choichix alvaradoi (192074)
Middle Cenomanian	99.6 - 93.5	Lebanon	Gigapteryx tethyestris (124426)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.5 - 70.6	Canada (Alberta)	Acanthopterygii indet. IIIA-1 (98677) Acanthopterygii indet., Acanthopterygii indet. IIIA-1, Acanthopterygii indet. AvC, Acanthopterygii indet. AvD (98674)
Ypresian	56.0 - 47.8	India (Gujarat)	Acanthopterygii indet. (71438)
Rupelian	33.9 - 28.1	Poland	Caprosimilis carpathicus (211829)
Chattian - Early/Lower Miocene	28.1 - 15.97	Greece (Greneva)	Batrachoidida vigneauxi (222448)
Miocene	23.03 - 5.333	USA (California)	Ozymandias gilberti (186028)
Tortonian	11.62 - 7.246	USA (California)	Ozymandias gilberti (45489)
Late/Upper Pliocene	3.6 - 2.588	Spain (Alcolea de Calatrava)	Acanthopterygii indet. (224542)