Taxon calibrated
Total group Characiformes
Minimum age
93.9 Ma
Maximum 95% CI age
143.0 Ma
Authority
Dutheil (1999)
Locality
Kem Kem Beds, Morocco
Age Authority
See argumentation in Benton et al. (2015), calibration 29; specimen derives from same geological unit
Outgroup sequence
Characiformes indet. (Total group Characiformes, 93.9 Ma)
Rubiesichthys gregalis (Chanidae vs Kneriidae, 126.3 Ma)
Tischlingerichthys viohli (Crown Otomorpha, 150.94 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: Otomorpha
Subcohort: Ostariophysi
Section: Otophysa
Superorder: Characiphysae