Taxon calibrated
Total group Spintherobolus
Minimum age
24.5 Ma
Maximum 95% CI age
119.0 Ma
Authority
Malabarba (1998)
Locality
Tremembe Formation
Age Authority
Deseadan SALMA, age estimate derived from Flynn and Swisher (1995)
Outgroup sequence
Megacheirodon unicus (Total group Spintherobolus, 24.5 Ma)
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
Order: Characiformes
Suborder: Characoidei
Family: Characidae