Plectocretacicoidei

Plectocretacicoidei
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Tetraodontiformes
Suborder:	†Plectocretacicoidei Tyler & Sorbini, 1996
Families
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Plectocretacicoidei is an extinct suborder of Actinopterygii belonging to the order Tetraodontiformes, which includes the triggerfishes, filefishes, pufferfishes and related groups.[1][2]

The fishes in this suborder were extant from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian to Campanian) of Italy and Slovenia, both in the former Tethyan region, and are regarded as basal Tetraodontiformes.[3]

The classification of the Plectocretacicoidei as a sister group to the Tetraodontiformes has been challenged and many of the characteristics which were used to suggest a close relationship to the Tetraodontiformes are shared with the Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes, and the Lophiiformes and Tetraodontiformes share derived characteristics which are not present in the Plectocretacicoidei. The authors of this study suggest that the taxa included within Plectocretacicoidei are basal members of the Percomorpha.[4]

Families

Plectocretacicoidei includes the following families:[1][5]'

• †Cretatriacanthidae Tyler & Sorbini, 1996
• †Plectocretacicidae Tyler & Sorbini, 1996
• †Protriacanthidae Tyler & Sorbini, 1996

Referernces

1. Nelson, J.S.; Grande, T.C.; Wilson, M.V.H. (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 518–526. doi:10.1002/9781119174844. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. LCCN 2015037522. OCLC 951899884. OL 25909650M.
2. "†suborder Plectocretacicoidei (ray-finned fish)". Paleaobiology Database. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
3. Tyler, James C.; Tyler, James C.; Sorbini, Lorenzo; Institution, Smithsonian (1996). New superfamily and three new families of tetraodontiform fishes from the Upper Cretaceous : the earliest and most morphologically primitive plectognaths. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press.
4. Near, Thomas J.; Thacker, Christine E. (2024-04-18). "Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii)". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 65 (1). doi:10.3374/014.065.0101. ISSN 0079-032X.
5. Franceso Santini; James C. Tyler (2003). "A phylogeny of the families of fossil and extant tetraodontiform fishes (Acanthomorpha, Tetraodontiformes), Upper Cretaceous to Recent". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 139 (4): 565–617. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2003.00088.x.