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Anostomidae

Actinopteri - Characiformes - Anostomidae

Taxonomy
Anostomidae is a family. It is extant.

It was assigned to Heterognathi by Jordan (1963); and to Erythrinoidea by Nelson et al. (2016).

Subtaxa
Leporinus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1963Anostomidae Jordan p. 637
2016Anostomidae Nelson et al. p. 200

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
superclassActinopterygii()
classActinopteri()
subclassNeopterygii(Regan 1923)
—Teleosteomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Teleostei(Müller 1846)
—Teleocephalade Pinna 1996
—ClupeocephalaPatterson and Rosen 1977
—Otocephala
superorderOstariophysiJordan and Evermann 1896
—Otophysi
superorderCharaciphysae
orderCharaciformesRegan 1911
suborderCharacoidei
superfamilyErythrinoidea
familyAnostomidae
familyAnostomidae

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.

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G. Leporinus Lundberg 1997
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: freshwatero
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 10:36:16
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:36:16
Source: o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Carroll 1988

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Middle Eocene to the top of the Laventan or 48.07000 to 11.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 37.71 Ma

Collections (23 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Eocene48.07 - 37.71Peru (Loreto) Leporinus sp. (176151)
Middle Eocene48.07 - 37.71Peru Leporinus sp. (176136 176139)
Late/Upper Eocene37.71 - 33.9Peru (San Martín) Leporinus sp. (225589)
Late/Upper Eocene37.71 - 33.9Peru (San Martin) Leporinus sp. (225588)
Priabonian - Rupelian37.71 - 27.3Peru (Loreto) Leporinus sp. (144474)
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 27.3Peru Leporinus sp. (199559 199561 199563 225590)
Rupelian - Chattian33.9 - 23.04Peru (Loreto) Leporinus sp. (176129)
Rupelian - Chattian33.9 - 23.04Peru Anostomidae indet. sp 1, Anostomidae indet. sp 2 (199560) Leporinus sp. (199562)
Late/Upper Oligocene27.3 - 23.04Peru Anostomidae indet. (176155)
Late/Upper Oligocene27.3 - 23.04Peru (Loreto) Leporinus sp. (176130 176147)
Colhuehuapian21.0 - 17.5Peru Anostomidae indet., Leporinus sp. (176149)
Middle Miocene15.98 - 11.63Peru Anostomidae indet., Leporinus sp. (176135)
Serravallian - Tortonian13.82 - 7.246Peru Anostomidae indet., Leporinus sp. (176156) Leporinus sp. (176143)
Laventan13.8 - 11.0Colombia (Huila) Leporinus sp. (186679)
Tortonian11.63 - 7.246Peru A. tricuspid teeth, A. hexacuspid teeth (176162) Leporinus sp. (176133)