Taxon calibrated
Crown Scombridae
Minimum age
54.17 Ma
Maximum 95% CI age
80.88 Ma
Authority
Alfaro et al. (in prep)
Locality
Danatinsk Formation, Turkmenistan
Age Authority
See argumentation in Alfaro et al. (in revision), calibration 5
Outgroup sequence
Eocoelopoma portentosum (Crown Scombridae, 54.17 Ma)
Argestichthys vysotzkyi (Total group Trichuroidea, 54.17 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: Pelagiaria
Order: Scombriformes
Family: Scombridae