Peltopleuriformes

Peltopleuriformes Temporal range: Middle Triassic–Late Triassic PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Subclass:	Neopterygii
Order:	† Peltopleuriformes Lehman, 1966
Families
†Peltopleuridae †Thoracopteridae †Wushaichthyidae

Peltopleuriformes is an extinct order of ray-finned fish.

Classification

• Order †PeltopleuriformesLehman, 1966 [Peltopleuroidei Lehman 1966] ^{[1] [2] [3]}
  • Family † Peltopleuridae Brough, 1939
    • Genus † Marcopoloichthys Tintori et al., 2008
    • Genus † Placopleurus Brough, 1939
    • Genus † Peltopleurus Kner, 1866a [ Tripelta Wade, 1940]
  • Superfamily † Thoracopteroidea Shen & Arratia, 2022 ^[4]
    • Family † Wushaichthyidae Shen & Arratia, 2022
      • Genus † Wushaichthys Xu et al., 2015
      • Genus † Peripeltopleurus Bürgin 1992
    • Family † Thoracopteridae Griffith, 1977 sensu Shen & Arratia, 2022
      • Genus † Thoracopterus Bronn, 1858
      • Genus † Gigantopterus Abel, 1906
      • Genus † Potanichthys Xu et al., 2013
      • Genus † Italopterus Shen & Arratia, 2022

Timeline of genera

Bibliography

• Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2011-05-17.

References

1. Haaramo, Mikko (2007). "†Peltopleuriformes". Mikko's Phylogeny Archive. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
2. Nelson, Joseph S.; Grande, Terry C.; Wilson, Mark V. H. (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN   9781118342336.
3. van der Laan, Richard (2016). "'Family-group names of fossil fishes'". European Journal of Taxonomy. 466: 1–167. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.466.
4. Shen, Chenchen; Arratia, Gloria (2021-10-02). "Re-description of the sexually dimorphic peltopleuriform fish Wushaichthys exquisitus (Middle Triassic, China): taxonomic implications and phylogenetic relationships" . Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 19 (19): 1317–1342. doi:10.1080/14772019.2022.2029595. ISSN   1477-2019. S2CID   247731689.