Ginglymodi

Ginglymodi Temporal range: Middle Triassic–Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula)
Ticinolepis longaeva
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Infraclass:	Holostei
Clade:	Ginglymodi Cope, 1871

Ginglymodi is a clade of holostean fish that contains modern gar and their extinct relatives in the order Lepisosteiformes, Semionotiformes, Kyphosichthyiformes, and other taxa.

Taxonomy

After Xu & Ma, 2023

• Clade Ginglymodi
  • Genus †Diandongichthys
  • Genus †Sangiorgioichthys
  • Genus †Ticinolepis López-Arbarello et al., 2016
    • Species †T. longaeva López-Arbarello et al., 2016 (type species)
    • Species †T. crassidens López-Arbarello et al., 2016
  • Order †Kyphosichthyiformes
    • Family †Kyphosichthyidae
      • Genus †Kyphosichthys
      • Genus †Luoxiongichthys
      • Genus †Fuyuanichthys
    • Family †Lashanichthyidae
      • Genus †Lashanichthys
      • Genus †Yudaiichthys
  • Clade Neoginglymodi
    • Order †Semionotiformes
    • Order Lepisosteiformes

Gallery

• 
  Lepidotes gigas
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  Callipurbeckia
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  Longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus)
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  Florida gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus)
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  Tropical gar (Atractosteus tropicus)
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  Atractosteus simplex
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  Cuneatus maximus

References

1. ↑ López-Arbarello, A.; Sferco, E. (2018). "Neopterygian phylogeny: the merger assay". Royal Society Open Science. 5 (3): 172337.
2. ↑ "A new basal ginglymodian fish (Holostei: Neopterygii) from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) Luoping Biota, Yunnan, China". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. ISSN 0024-4082.
3. ↑ Xu, G.; Ma, X.; Wu, F.; Ren, Y. (2019). "A Middle Triassic kyphosichthyiform from Yunnan, China, and phylogenetic reassessment of early ginglymodians". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 57 (3): 181–204. doi:10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.190319.

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