Taxon calibrated
Total group Chaetodon
Minimum age
5.333 Ma
Maximum 95% CI age
50.81 Ma
Authority
Carnevale (2006)
Locality
Oran, Algeria
Age Authority
Messinian, age estimate derived from Gradstein et al. (2012)
Outgroup sequence
Chaetodon ficheuri (Total group Chaetodon, 5.333 Ma)
Chaetodontidae indet. (Tholichthys larval stage) (Total group Chaetodontidae, 29.62 Ma)
Luvarus necopinatus (Total group Luvarus, 54.17 Ma)
Balkaria histiopterygia (Total group Tetraodontoidei, 55.8 Ma)
Gasterorhamphosus zuppichinii (Total group Macrorhamphosa, 69.71 Ma)
Aipichthys velifer (Total group Lampridformes, 98 Ma)
Stichocentrus liratus (Total group Holocentroidei, 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: Acanthomorphata
Division: Euacanthomorphacea
Subdivision: Percomorphaceae
Series: Eupercaria
Order: Chaetodontiformes
Family: Chaetodontidae