Colobodontidae
Temporal range: Anisian–Norian Possible Olenekian record[1]
Fossil specimen of Colobodus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Subclass: Neopterygii
Order: Colobodontiformes
Xu et al., 2024
Family: Colobodontidae
Andersson, 1916
Genera

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Colobodontidae is an extinct family of marine stem-neopterygian fish known from the Triassic of Asia and Europe. It contains at least three genera: Colobodus, Crenilepis and Feroxichthys;[2] the genera Chaohuperleidus and Gabanellia may also belong to the family.[1] The colobodontids typically were medium-sized, somewhat deep-bodied fishes with a durophagous diet.[3] Like most other stem-neopterygian families, it was traditionally placed in the paraphyletic order Perleidiformes,[2] but in 2024 it was moved to the new, monotypic order Colobodontiformes.[4]

Classification

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The cladogram below follows Yuan et al. (2022) and shows the relationships between Colobodontidae and other neopterygian clades:[1]

Neopterygii
(Total group)

References

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  1. ^ a b c Yuan, Z.; Xu, G.; Dai, X.; Wang, F.; Liu, X.; Jia, E.; Miao, L.; Song, H. (2022). "A new perleidid neopterygian fish from the Early Triassic (Dienerian, Induan) of South China, with a reassessment of the relationships of Perleidiformes". PeerJ. 10 e13448. doi:10.7717/peerj.13448. PMC 9121871. PMID 35602899.
  2. ^ a b 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Xu, G.; Yuan, Z.; Ren, Y.; Liao, J.; Zhao, L.; Song, H (2024). "Teffichthys wui sp. nov., a new perleidid fish from the Early Triassic of Jiangsu and Anhui, China". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 62 (3): 165–185. doi:10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.240528.