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Colobodontidae

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Colobodontidae
Temporal range: Middle Triassic–Late Triassic
Fossil specimen of Colobodus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Subclass: Neopterygii
Family: Colobodontidae
Andersson, 1916
Genera

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Colobodontidae is an extinct family of marine stem-neopterygian fish known from the Middle to Late Triassic of Asia and Europe. As currently defined, it contains three genera: Colobodus, Crenilepis and Feroxichthys.[1] The colobodontids were medium-sized, somewhat deep-bodied fishes with a durophagous diet.[2] Like many other stem-neopterygians, they have traditionally been placed in the order Perleidiformes, which is now thought to be paraphyletic.[1]

Classification

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The cladogram below follows Ma et al. (2021) and shows the relationships between Colobodontidae and other neopterygian clades:[1]

Neopterygii
(Total group)

References

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  1. ^ a b c Ma, X. Y.; Xu, G. H.; Geng, B. H. (2021). "Feroxichthys panzhouensis sp. nov., a hump-backed colobodontid (Neopterygii, Actinopterygii) from the early Middle Triassic of Panzhou, Guizhou, China". PeerJ. 9: e11257. doi:10.7717/peerj.11257. PMC 8035898. PMID 33868833.
  2. ^ Sun, Z.; Tintori, A.; Lombardo, C.; Jiang, D.; Hao, W.; Sun, Y.; Wu, F.; Rusconi, M. (2008). "A new species of the genus Colobodus Agassiz, 1844 (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii) from the Pelsonian (Anisian, Middle Triassic) of Guizhou, South China". Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 114 (3): 363–376. doi:10.13130/2039-4942/5908.