- Taxon calibrated
- Meluccius merluccius
- Minimum age
- 5.333 Ma
- Maximum 95% CI age
- 43.59 Ma
- Authority
- Carnevale (2005)
- Locality
- Oran, Algeria
- Age Authority
- Messinian, age estimate derived from Gradstein et al. (2012)
- Outgroup sequence
- Merluccius cf. merluccius (Meluccius merluccius, 5.333 Ma)
- Gaidropsarus pilleri (Total group Gaidropsarus, 13.53 Ma)
- Nezumia lindsayi (Total group Macrouridae, 41.3 Ma)
- Rhinocephalus planiceps (Crown Gadiformes, 53.7 Ma)
- Cretzeus rinaldii (Crown Zeiformes, 69.71 Ma)
- Homonotichthys dorsalis (Total group Polymixiiformes, 93.6 Ma)
- Aipichthys velifer (Total group Lampridformes, 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: Paracanthomorphacea
- Series: Zeiogadaria
- Order: Gadiformes
- Suborder: Gadoidei
- Family: Merlucciidae