Palaeonisciformes Explained

The Palaeonisciformes, commonly known as "palaeoniscoids" (also spelled "paleoniscoid", or alternatively "paleoniscids") are an extinct grouping of primitive ray-finned fish (Actinopterygii), spanning from the Silurian/Devonian to the Cretaceous. They are generally considered paraphyletic, but their exact relationships to living ray-finned fish are uncertain.^[1] While some and perhaps most palaeoniscoids likely belong to the stem-group of Actinopteryii,^[2] it has been suggested that some may belong to the crown group,^[3] with some of these possibly related to Cladistia (containing bichirs) and/or Chondrostei (which contains sturgeons and paddlefish).^[4] Many palaeoniscoids share a conservative body shape and a similar arrangement of skull bones.^[5]

Historic background

The systematics of fossil and extant fishes has puzzled ichthyologists since the time of Louis Agassiz, who first grouped all Palaeozoic ray-finned fishes together with Chondrostei (sturgeons, paddlefishes), gars, lungfishes, and acanthodians in his Ganoidei. Carl Hermann Müller later proposed to divide actinopterygians into three groups: Chondrostei, Holostei, and Teleostei. Later, Edward Drinker Cope included these three groups within Actinopteri.^[6] The same classification is also used today, though the definitions of these groups have changed significantly over the years. The sister group to Actinopteri are the Cladistia, which include Polypterus (bichirs), Erpetoichthys and their fossil relatives. All together are grouped as Actinopterygii.

A few additional classification schemes were proposed over the years. Lev Berg erected the superorder Palaeonisci, in which he included early actinopterygians that belonged to neither Chondrostei nor Polypteri (Cladistia). Mostly following Berg, Jean-Pierre Lehman grouped the Actinopterygii into 26 orders, among others the Palaeonisciformes with the two suborders Palaeoniscoidei and Platysomoidei.^[6]

Numerous genera of early actinopterygians have been referred to either Palaeonisciformes or to one of its suborders based on superficial resemblance with either Palaeoniscum (Palaeoniscoidei) or Platysomus (Platysomoidei), especially during the early and middle parts of the 20th century. Palaeonisciformes, Palaeoniscoidei, and Platysomoidei have therefore become wastebasket taxa. They are not natural groups, but instead paraphyletic assemblages of the early members of several ray-finned fish lineages. Palaeoniscoidei have traditionally encompassed most Paleozoic actinopterygians, except those that exhibit atypical body forms (such as the deep-bodied Platysomoidei, or those assigned securely to any of the living groups of ray-finned fishes.^[7] The same can also be said about the family Palaeoniscidae sensu lato, to which several genera not closely related to Palaeoniscum have been referred in the past.

The grouping of "palaeonisciforms" was based largely on shared plesiomorphic features, such as the forward position of the eye, the large gape or the presence of rhombic scales. However, such symplesiomorphies are not informative with regard to phylogeny, but rather an indication of common ancestry. In modern biology, taxonomists group taxa based on shared apomorphies (synapomorphies) in order to detect monophyletic groups (natural groups). They use computer software (e.g., PAUP) to determine the most likely evolutionary relationships between taxa, thereby putting previous hypotheses of such relationships to the test. As a consequence, many genera have been subsequently removed from Palaeonisciformes and referred to distinct orders (e.g., Saurichthyiformes).

The term Palaeonisciformes has mostly disappeared from the modern literature or is nowadays only used to refer to the "primitive" morphology of a taxon (e.g., "palaeonisciform skull shape" or "palaeoniscoid body shape"). In order to make the Paleonisciformes, Palaeoniscoidei or Palaeoniscidae monophyletic, these terms should only be used in a strict sense, i.e., when referring to the clade of actinopterygians that includes Palaeoniscum and the taxa closely related to it.

A monophyletic clade including several taxa classically referred to the Palaeonisciformes (e.g., Aesopichthys, Birgeria, Boreosomus, Canobius, Pteronisculus, Rhadinichthys) was recovered in the cladistic analysis by Lund et al.^[8] This clade, coined Palaeoniscimorpha, is also used in subsequent publications.^[6] Recent cladistic analyses also recovered clades containing several genera that have historically been grouped within Palaeonisciformes, while excluding others.^[9] ^[10] ^[11] Due to the delicate nature of fossils of ray-finned fishes and the incomplete knowledge of several taxa (especially with regard to the internal cranial anatomy),^[11] there is still no consensus about the evolutionary relationships of several early actinopterygians previously grouped within Palaeonisciformes.

Classification

The following list includes species that have been referred to Palaeonisciformes (or Palaeoniscidae, respectively), usually because of superficial resemblance with Palaeoniscum freieslebeni. Many of these species are poorly known and have never been included in any cladistic analysis. Their inclusion in Palaeonisciformes (or Palaeoniscidae) is in most cases doubtful and requires confirmation by cladistic studies. Which taxa should be included in Palaeonisciformes sensu stricto (or Palaeoniscidae sensu stricto) and which ones moved to other orders or families, respecitively, is a matter of ongoing research.

Order †Palaeonisciformes Hay, 1902 sensu stricto [Palaeoniscida Moy-Thomas & Miles, 1971]^[12] ^[13] ^[14]
- Family †Palaeoniscidae Vogt, 1852
 - Genus ?†Agecephalichthys Wade, 1935
 - Species †Agecephalichthys granulatus Wade, 1935
 - Genus ?†Atherstonia Woodward, 18989 [''[[Broometta]] Chabakov, 1927]
 - Species †Atherstonia scutata Woodward, 1889 [''Atherstonia cairncrossi'' Broom, 1913; ''[[Amblypterus]] capensis Broom, 1913; Broometta cairncrossi Chabakov, 1927]
 - Species †Atherstonia minor Woodward, 1893
 - Genus ?†Cryphaeiolepis Traquair, 1881
 - Species †Cryphaeiolepis scutata Traquair, 1881
 - Genus ?†Cteniolepidotrichia Poplin & Su, 1992
 - Species †Cteniolepidotrichia turfanensis Poplin & Su, 1992
 - Genus †Dicellopyge Brough, 1931
 - Species †Dicellopyge macrodentata Brough, 1931
 - Species †Dicellopyge lissocephalus Brough, 1931
 - Genus ?†Duwaichthys Liu et al., 1990
 - Species †Duwaichthys mirabilis Liu et al., 1990
 - Genus ?†Ferganiscus Sytchevskaya & Yakolev, 1999
 - Species †Ferganiscus osteolepis Sytchevskaya & Yakolev, 1999
 - Genus †Gyrolepis Agassiz, 1833 non Kade, 1858
 - Species †G. albertii Agassiz, 1833
 - Species †G. gigantea Agassiz, 1833
 - Species †G. maxima Agassiz, 1833
 - Species †G. quenstedti Dames, 1888
 - Species †G. tenuistriata Agassiz, 1833
 - Genus †Gyrolepidoides Cabrera, 1944
 - Species †G. creyanus Schaeffer, 1955
 - Species †G. cuyanus Cabrera, 1944
 - Species †G. multistriatus Rusconi, 1948
 - Genus ?†Palaeoniscinotus Rohon, 1890
 - Species †P. czekanowskii Rohon, 1890
 - Genus †Palaeoniscum de Blainville, 1818 [''[[Palaeoniscus]] Agassiz, 1833 non Von Meyer, 1858; Palaeoniscas Rzchak, 1881; Eupalaeoniscus Rzchak, 1881; Palaeomyzon Weigelt, 1930; Geomichthys Sauvage, 1888]
 - Species †P. angustum (Rzehak, 1881) [''Palaeoniscas angustus'' Rzehak, 1881]
 - Species †P. antipodeum (Egerton, 1864) [''Palaeoniscus antipodeus'' Egerton, 1864]
 - Species †P. antiquum Williams, 1886
 - Species †P. arenaceum Berger, 1832
 - Species †P. capense (Bloom, 1913) [''Palaeoniscus capensis'' Bloom, 1913]
 - Species †P. comtum (Agassiz, 1833) [''Palaeoniscus comtus'' Agassiz, 1833]
 - Species †P. daedalium Yankevich & Minich, 1998
 - Species †P. devonicum Clarke, 1885
 - Species †P. elegans (Sedgwick, 1829) [''Palaeoniscus elegans'' Sedgwick, 1829]
 - Species †P. freieslebeni de Blainville, 1818 [''Eupalaeoniscus freieslebeni'' (de Brainville, 1818); ''Palaeoniscus freieslebeni'' (de Brainville, 1818)]
 - Species †P. hassiae (Jaekel, 1898) [''Galeocerdo contortus hassiae'' Jaekel, 1898; ''Palaeomyzon hassiae'' (Jaekel, 1898)]
 - Species †P. kasanense Geinitz & Vetter, 1880
 - Species †P. katholitzkianum (Rzehak, 1881) [''Palaeoniscas katholitzkianus'' Rzehak, 1881]
 - Species †P. landrioti (le Sauvage, 1890) [''Palaeoniscus landrioti'' le Sauvage, 1890]
 - Species †P. longissimum (Agassiz, 1833) [''Palaeoniscus longissimus'' Agassiz, 1833]
 - Species †P. macrophthalmum (McCoy, 1855) [''Palaeoniscus macrophthalmus'' McCoy, 1855]
 - Species †P. magnum (Woodward, 1937) [''Palaeoniscus magnus'' Woodward, 1937]
 - Species †P. moravicum (Rzehak, 1881) [''Palaeoniscas moravicus'' Rzehak, 1881]
 - Species †P. promtu (Rzehak, 1881) [''Palaeoniscas promtus'' Rzehak, 1881]
 - Species †P. reticulatum Williams, 1886
 - Species †P. scutigerum Newberry, 1868
 - Species †P. vratislavensis (Agassiz, 1833) [''Palaeoniscus vratislavensis'' Agassiz, 1833]
 - Genus †Palaeothrissum de Blainville, 1818
 - Species †P. elegans Sedgwick, 1829
 - Species †P. macrocephalum de Blainville, 1818
 - Species †P. magnum de Blainville, 1818
 - Genus ?†Shuniscus Su, 1983
 - Species †Shuniscus longianalis Su, 1983
 - Genus ?†Suchonichthys Minich, 2001
 - Species †Suchonichthys molini Minich, 2001
 - Genus ?†Trachelacanthus Fischer De Waldheim, 1850
 - Species †Trachelacanthus stschurovskii Fischer De Waldheim, 1850
 - Genus ?†Triassodus Su, 1984
 - Species †Triassodus yanchangensis Su, 1984
 - Genus ?†Turfania Liu & Martínez, 1973
 - Species †T. taoshuyuanensis Liu & Martínez, 1973
 - Species †T. varta Wang, 1979
 - Genus ?†Turgoniscus Jakovlev, 1968
 - Species †Turgoniscus reissi Jakovlev, 1968
 - Genus ?†Weixiniscus Su & Dezao, 1994
 - Species †Weixiniscus microlepis Su & Dezao, 1994
 - Genus ?†Xingshikous Liu, 1988
 - Species †Xingshikous xishanensis Liu, 1988
 - Genus ?†Yaomoshania Poplin et al., 1991
 - Species †Yaomoshania minutosquama Poplin et al., 1991
- Brachydegma

Other families attributed to Palaeonisciformes

This list includes families that at one time or another were placed in the order Palaeonisciformes. The species included in these families are often poorly known, and a close relationship with the family Palaeoniscidae is therefore doubtful unless confirmed by cladistic analyses. These families are therefore better treated as Actinopterygii incertae sedis for the time being. The evolutionary relationships of early actinopterygians is a matter of ongoing studies.

†Acropholidae Kazantseva-Selezneva, 1977
†Atherstoniidae Gardiner, 1969
†Brazilichthyidae Cox & Hutchinson, 1991
†Centrolepididae Gardier, 1960
†Coccolepididae Berg, 1940 corrig.
†Commentryidae Gardiner, 1963
†Cryphiolepididae MoyThomas, 1939 corrig.
†Dwykiidae Gardiner, 1969
†Holuridae Moy-Thomas, 1939
†Igornichthyidae Heyler, 1977
†Irajapintoseidae Beltan, 1978
†Monesedeiphidae Beltan, 1989
†Moythomasiidae Kazantseva, 1971
†Rhabdolepididae Gardiner, 1963
†Stegotrachelidae Gardiner, 1963
†Thrissonotidae Berg, 1955
†Tienshaniscidae Lu & Chen, 2010
†Turseodontidae Bock, 1959 corrig.
†Uighuroniscidae Jin, 1996
†Urosthenidae Woodward, 1931

Timeline of genera

Andreolepis hedei, previously grouped within Palaeonisciformes, has proven so far to be the earliest-known actinopterygiian, living around 420 million years ago (Late Silurian in Russia, Sweden, Estonia, and Latvia. Actinopterygians underwent an extensive diversification during the Carboniferous, after the end-Devonian Hangenberg extinction.

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External links

Märss. Tiiu. 2001. Andreolepis (Actinopterygii) in the Upper Silurian of northern Eurasia. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Geology. 50. 3. 174–189. 1736-6046. PDF, 1.4 MB.
Gardiner . Brian. Brian G. Gardiner (biologist). Schaeffer. Bobb. Bobb Schaeffer . Masserie. Judy A.. Judy A. Masserie. August 2005. A review of lower actinopterygian phylogeny. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 144. 4. 511–525. 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00181.x. free.
Sallan. Lauren Cole. Coates. Michael I.. 1 June 2010. End-Devonian extinction and a bottleneck in the early evolution of modern jawed vertebrates. PNAS. 107. 22. 10131–10135. 10.1073/pnas.0914000107. 20479258. 2890420. 2010PNAS..10710131S . free.
Palaeonisciformes at University of Bristol
Sepkoski. Jack. Jack Sepkoski. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364. 560. 0007-5779. 978-0-87710-450-6. 2012-03-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class. 2011-07-23.

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