Colobodontidae

Colobodontidae; Temporal range: Anisian–Norian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Possible Olenekian record
	Fossil specimen of Colobodus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Subclass:	Neopterygii
Order:	†Colobodontiformes; Xu et al., 2024
Family:	†Colobodontidae; Andersson, 1916
Genera
	See text

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

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

Neopterygii

(Total group)

References

1 2 3 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.
1 2 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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.