Perleidiformes

Perleidiformes
Temporal range: Triassic
Perleidus altolepis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Subclass: Neopterygii
Order: Perleidiformes
Berg, 1937
Families
Synonyms
  • Perleidida
  • Polzbergiiformes Griffith 1977
  • Cephaloxeniformes
  • Platysiagiformes Brough 1939
  • Platysiagida Fowler 1958

Perleidiformes are an extinct order of prehistoric ray-finned fish from the Triassic period[1] Although numerous Triassic taxa have been referred to Perleidiformes, which ones should be included for it to form a monophyletic group is a matter of ongoing scientific debate.[2][3][4]

Chaohuperleidus primus, one of the earliest perleidids
  1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Retrieved 2011-05-17.
  2. ^ Xu, G.-H. (2020). "Feroxichthys yunnanensis gen. et sp. nov. (Colobodontidae, Neopterygii), a large durophagous predator from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) Luoping Biota, eastern Yunnan, China". PeerJ. 8: e10229. doi:10.7717/peerj.10229. PMC 7583626. PMID 33150093.
  3. ^ Wen, W.; Hu, S. X.; Zhang, Q. Y.; Benton, M. J.; Kriwet, J.; Chen, Z. Q.; Zhou, C. Y.; Xie, T.; Huang, J. Y. (2019). "A new species of Platysiagum from the Luoping Biota (Anisian, Middle Triassic, Yunnan, South China) reveals the relationship between Platysiagidae and Neopterygii". Geological Magazine. 156 (4): 669–682. Bibcode:2019GeoM..156..669W. doi:10.1017/S0016756818000079. hdl:1983/67be3458-c375-4742-b7b0-22e52c7b5040. S2CID 134097409.
  4. ^ Sun, Z.; Tintori, A.; Lombardo, C.; Jiang, D.; Hao, W.; Sun, Y.; Wu, F.; Rusconi, M. (2008). "A new species of the genus Colobodus Agassiz, 1844 (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii) from the Pelsonian (Anisian, Middle Triassic) of Guizhou, South China". Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 114 (3): 363–376.