Taxon calibrated
Crown Dorosoma
Minimum age
1.8 Ma
Maximum 95% CI age
117.5 Ma
Authority
Miller (1981)
Locality
Gatuna Formation, New Mexico
Age Authority
Blacan/Irivingtonian NALMA, age estimate derived from Gradstein et al. (2012)
Outgroup sequence
Dorosoma petenense (Crown Dorosoma, 1.8 Ma)
Eoengraulis fasoloi (Crown Engraulidae, 49 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: Clupei
Order: Clupeiformes
Suborder: Clupeoidei
Family: Clupeidae