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Plethodidae
Plethodidae is an extinct family of teleost fish that existed during the Late Cretaceous period. Fossils are known from North America, North Africa, and Europe. Description Plethodids possessed thin, angelfish-like bodies and often had high dorsal fins which made them distinctive from other types of fish. Their skeletons were partially cartilaginous, though the amount varied from one species to another. Genera As of 2005, there are seventeen recognized genera in the family Plethodidae: * '' Bachea'' * '' Bananogmius'' * '' Dixonanogmius'' * '' Enischnorhynchus'' * '' Luxilites'' * '' Martinichthys'' * '' Moorevillia'' * '' Niobrara'' * ''Paranogmius ''Paranogmius'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Cenomanian. It is known from only 2 partial skulls and several dorsal vertebrae discovered in the Bahariya Formation that was destroyed during World War II.Weiler ...'' * '' Pentanogmius'' * '' Plethodus'' * '' Pseudonogmius'' * '' Pseudothryptodu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pentanogmius
''Pentanogmius'' is an extinct genus of sail-finned ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now Europe and the USA. Five species are currently recognized, 2 from Cenomanian to Turonian Europe and 3 better known species from Coniacian to Campanian North America. The American species inhabited large areas of the Western Interior Seaway, with fossil finds indicating a range from Texas and Alabama in the south to Manitoba, Canada, in the north. History and naming The first remains that now fall under the name ''Pentanogmius'' were found in the English Lower Chalk and described in 1850 as ''Plethodus pentagon''. In 1877 Edward Drinker Cope named ''Anogmius evolutus'' from a let mandibular ramus found in the Niobrara Formation of Kansas, taking note of its less curved morphology compared to the other ''Anogmius'' species known at the time. As ''Anogmius'' was preoccupied, the name was eventually changed to ''Ananogmius'' and then ''Bananogmius''. Later, ''Banano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pentanogmius Evolutus
''Pentanogmius'' is an extinct genus of sail-finned ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now Europe and the USA. Five species are currently recognized, 2 from Cenomanian to Turonian Europe and 3 better known species from Coniacian to Campanian North America. The American species inhabited large areas of the Western Interior Seaway, with fossil finds indicating a range from Texas and Alabama in the south to Manitoba, Canada, in the north. History and naming The first remains that now fall under the name ''Pentanogmius'' were found in the English Lower Chalk and described in 1850 as ''Plethodus pentagon''. In 1877 Edward Drinker Cope named ''Anogmius evolutus'' from a let mandibular ramus found in the Niobrara Formation of Kansas, taking note of its less curved morphology compared to the other ''Anogmius'' species known at the time. As ''Anogmius'' was preoccupied, the name was eventually changed to ''Ananogmius'' and then ''Bananogmius''. Later, ''Banano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paranogmius
''Paranogmius'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Cenomanian. It is known from only 2 partial skulls and several dorsal vertebrae discovered in the Bahariya Formation that was destroyed during World War II.Weiler, W. (1935)Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. Stromers in den Wusten Aegyptens. II. Wirbeltierreste der Baharije-Stufe (unterstes Cenoman). 16. Neue Untersuchungen an den Fischresten.''Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung'', ''32'', pls-1. Since then, no more fossils have been discovered. It may have been up to 3 meters (10 feet) long.Taverne, L. (2003)Redescription critique des genres Thryptodus, Pseudothryptodus et Paranogmius, poissons marins (Teleostei, Tselfatiiformes) du Crétacé supérieur des États-Unis, d'Egypte et de Libye ''Belgian Journal of Zoology'', ''133''(2), 163-174. Discovery and history The first and only remains of ''Paranogmius'' were discovered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enischnorhynchus
''Enischorhynchus'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Turonian of southern Texas. See also * Prehistoric fish * List of prehistoric bony fish A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College Albert A. List College of Jewish Studies, known simply as List College, is the undergraduate school of the J ... References Tselfatiiformes Late Cretaceous fish Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera {{cretaceous-fish-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tselfatiiformes
Tselfatiiformes is an extinct order of bony fishes from the infraclass Teleostei. The order represents the most important radiation of marine teleosts during the Cretaceous period. Fossils of tselfatiiforms are known from Europe, North America, central and northern South America, the Middle East and North Africa.Joseph S. Nelson: ''Fishes of the World''. John Wiley & Sons, 2006, . The order appeared in the upper Albian on the coasts of Europe and North Africa and spread during the Cenomanian and Turonian on the Proto Atlantic to the coasts of northern South America, the Gulf of Mexico and into the Western Interior Seaway. In the Coniacian and Santonian they were very common in North American coastal waters, but disappeared from Europe and North Africa. A few species still lived in the Campanian in the Gulf of Mexico and they had died out by the Danian (early Paleocene). Features The genera and species of the Tselfatiiformes had a high-backed body. The dorsal fin took up most of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zanclites
''Zanclites'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish. Classification Zanclites is a member of the tselfatiiformes, a group of fish typical of the Cretaceous period and usually endowed with large dorsal fins. In particular, Zanclites would appear to have been a member of the Plethodidae family . Zancltes xenurus was first described by Jordan in 1924 , based on a well-preserved fossil from the Niobrara formation in Kansas ( United States ). Other fish belonging to the same family found in the same formation are Niobrara and Pentanogmius . References Late Cretaceous bony fish Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Tselfatiiformes Late Cretaceous fish of North America {{Crossognathiformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bananogmius
''Bananogmius'' is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived in what is today Kansas during the Late Cretaceous. It lived in the Western Interior Seaway, which split North America in two during the Late Cretaceous.Fielitz C, Shimada K. 1999. A new species of ''Bananogmius'' (Teleostei; Tselfatiformes) from the Upper Cretaceous Carlile Shale of western Kansas. ''Journal of Paleontology'' 73(3): 504-511.Taverne L. 2001. Révision du genre ''Bananogmius'' (Teleostei, Tselfatiiformes), poisson marin du Crétecé supérior d'Amérique du Nord et d'Europe. ''Geodiversitas'' 23(1):17-40. Description As with many plethodids, ''Bananogmius'' had a thin body reminiscent of the modern angelfish, dozens of small teeth, and an extremely high dorsal fin A dorsal fin is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates within various taxa of the animal kingdom. Many species of animals possessing dorsal fins are not particularly closely related to each other, though t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tselfatia
''Tselfatia'' is an extinct genus of Cretaceous bony fish. Originally described from (and named after) Djebl Tselfat in Morocco, it has since been discovered at sites in several other countries ( Texas/USA, Germany, Mexico, Italy and the former Yugoslavia). The type species, ''Tselfatia formosa'', was named and described in 1944 by French paleontologist Camille Arambourg. A second species, ''T. dalmatica'', was named in 1980 from the Dalmatian Coast of Yugoslavia.Bardack, David & Teller-Marshall, Susan (1980). ''Tselfatia'', a Tethyan Cretaceous teleost; first records from North America and Yugoslavia. ''Journal of Paleontology The ''Journal of Paleontology'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the field of paleontology. It is published by the Paleontological Society. Indexing The ''Journal of Paleontology'' is indexed in: *BIOSIS Previews *Science Citatio ...''. 54 (5): 1075–1083. The enormous dorsal fin as well as the large anal fin both feature one much enla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syntegmodus
''Syntegmodus'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish. See also * Prehistoric fish * List of prehistoric bony fish A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College Albert A. List College of Jewish Studies, known simply as List College, is the undergraduate school of the J ... References External links Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database Tselfatiiformes Cretaceous fish of North America {{paleo-rayfinned-fish-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
