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Polypteridae (bichir)
Taxonomy
Polypteridae is a family. It is extant.
It was assigned to Cladistia by Cope (1887), Jordan (1963) and Otero et al. (2006); to Actinopterygii by Sereno et al. (2008); and to Polypteriformes by Betancur et al. (2013), Otero et al. (2015) and Nelson et al. (2016).
It was assigned to Cladistia by Cope (1887), Jordan (1963) and Otero et al. (2006); to Actinopterygii by Sereno et al. (2008); and to Polypteriformes by Betancur et al. (2013), Otero et al. (2015) and Nelson et al. (2016).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1887 | Polypteridae Cope p. 1018 |
| 1963 | Polypteridae Jordan p. 610 |
| 2006 | Polypteridae Otero et al. |
| 2008 | Polypteridae Sereno et al. |
| 2013 | Polypteridae Betancur et al. |
| 2015 | Polypteridae Otero et al. p. 5 |
| 2016 | Polypteridae Nelson et al. p. 117 |
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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. Polypteridae [bichir]
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G. Polypterus Lacépède 1803 [bichir]
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Polypterus bichir St Hilaire 1802 [Nile bichir]
Polypterus faraou Otero et al. 2006
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 Cenomanian to the top of the Holocene or 99.60000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.9 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.9 Ma
Collections (64 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late/Upper Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian | Algeria (Adrar) | Bawitius sp. (59578) | |
| Cenomanian | Algeria (Béchar) | Bawitius sp. (224512) | |
| Early/Lower Cenomanian | Morocco (Drâa-Tafilalet) | Polypteridae indet. (25325) | |
| Early/Lower Cenomanian | Morocco (Souss-Massa) | Serenoichthys kemkemensis (133582) | |
| Early/Lower Cenomanian | Egypt (Al Jizah) | Bawitius bartheli (123976) | |
| Late/Upper Cenomanian | Egypt | Lepidotus souzai (214404 214430) | |
| Campanian - Maastrichtian | Sudan (Ash Shamaliyah) | Polypteridae indet. (38682) | |
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Bolivia (Cochabamba) | Dagetella sudamericana (12855) | |
| Ypresian - Lutetian | Algeria (Bechar region) | Polypteridae indet. (77014) | |
| Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene | Libya (Sirt) | Polypterus sp. (175361 175362) | |
| Bartonian - Late/Upper Eocene | Libya | Polypterus sp. (48077) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Kenya | Polypterus sp. (174672) | |
| Burdigalian | Kenya (Nyanza) | Polypterus sp. (92703) | |
| Burdigalian | Kenya | Polypterus sp. (38060 57007) | |
| Serravallian - Tortonian | Tunisia (Gafsa) | Polypterus sp. (35279 35281) | |
| Tortonian - Messinian | Kenya | Polypterus sp. (22241) | |
| Tortonian - Zanclean | Kenya | Polypterus sp. (22236) | |
| Messinian | Chad | Polypterus faraou (208695) Polypterus sp. (59839) | |
| Messinian - Zanclean | Kenya | Polypterus sp. (22242) | |
| Messinian - Piacenzian | Kenya (Turkana District) | Polypterus sp. (21332) | |
| Zanclean | Kenya | Polypterus sp. (22240 22338) | |
| Zanclean - Piacenzian | Kenya | Polypterus sp. (22235 22239) | |
| Zanclean - Calabrian | Kenya | Polypterus sp. (21531) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Egypt | Polypterus sp. (22592) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Piacenzian | Ethiopia | Polypterus sp. (21546) | |
| Piacenzian | Kenya | Polypterus sp. (21538) | |
| Gelasian | Ethiopia | Polypterus sp. (21545) | |
| Gelasian | Kenya | Polypterus sp. (21398 21420 21446 21451 21497) | |
| Gelasian - Calabrian | Kenya | Polypterus sp. (21370 21421 21442 21453 21456 21466 21499 21500 21513 21522 32051 32053) | |
| Pleistocene - Holocene | Congo-Kinshasa | Polypterus sp. (22098) | |
| Calabrian | Kenya | Polypterus indet. (32060) Polypterus sp. (21368 21414 21524 21526 21534 32085) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Congo-Kinshasa | Polypterus senegalus (22066) | |
| Holocene | Sudan | Polypterus aethiopicus (208786) Polypterus sp. (21871) | |
| Holocene | Niger | Polypterus sp. (83304 83305) |