''Cretazeus rinaldii'' is an extinct genus of
ray-finned fish from the
Campanian age of
Nardò
Nardò ( la, Neritum or ; cms, Nareton) is a town and ''comune'' in the southern Italian region of Apulia, in the Province of Lecce.
Lies on a lowland area placed at south-west of its Province, its border includes part of the Ionian coast of S ...
,
Italy. It is the oldest known
zeiform fish, and cannot yet be placed in any
family.
References
Zeiformes
Cretaceous bony fish
Late Cretaceous fish
Cretaceous fish of Europe
Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
Fossil taxa described in 2000
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