- Taxon calibrated
- Total group Bolinichthys
- Minimum age
- 5.33 Ma
- Maximum 95% CI age
- 87.37 Ma
- Authority
- Denton 2013 described the fossil, position of genus in tree determined in Denton (2015).
- Locality
- Modelo Formation, California, USA
- Age Authority
- Late Miocene, age estimate derived from Gradstein et al. (2012)
- Outgroup sequence
- Bolinichthys sp. (Total group Bolinichthys, 5.33 Ma)
- Eomyctophum koraense (Crown Myctophiformes, 32.02 Ma)
- Aipichthys velifer (Total group Lampridformes, 98 Ma)
- Apateodus glyphodus (Total group Aulopiformes, 103.13 Ma)
- Leptolepides haerteisi (Total group Euteleostei, 150.94 Ma)
- Anaethalion zapporum (Crown Teleostei, 151.2 Ma)
- Occithrissops willsoni (stem Teleostei 5, 166.1 Ma)
- Leptolepis coryphaenoides (stem Teleostei 4, 181.7 Ma)
- Dorsetichthys bechei (stem Teleostei 3, 193.81 Ma)
- Knerichthys bronni (stem Teleostei 2, 221 Ma)
- Prohalecites porroi (stem Teleostei 1, 236 Ma)
- Watsonulus (stem Halecomorphi 1, 251.2 Ma)
- Taxa this fossil might apply to:
- Class: Actinopteri
- Subclass: Neopterygii
- Infraclass: Teleostei
- Megacohort: Osteoglossocephalai
- Supercohort: Clupeocephala
- Cohort: Euteleosteomorpha
- Subcohort: Neoteleostei
- Infracohort: Eurypterygia
- Section: Ctenosquamata
- Subsection: Myctophata
- Order: Myctophiformes
- Family: Myctophidae