- Taxon calibrated
- Stomias affinis
- Minimum age
- 5.33 Ma
- Maximum 95% CI age
- 60.59 Ma
- Authority
- Fink & Fink (1986)
- Locality
- Modelo Formation, California
- Age Authority
- Late Miocene, age estimate derived from Gradstein et al. (2012)
- Outgroup sequence
- Stomias affinis (Stomias affinis, 5.33 Ma)
- Chauliodus testa (Croan Chauliodus, 7.246 Ma)
- Polypnoides laevis (Total group Sternoptychidae, 41.3 Ma)
- Paravinciguerria praecursor (Total group Stomiiformes, 93.9 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: Stomiatii
- Order: Stomiatiformes
- Family: Stomiidae