''Vinctifer'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric

bony fish Osteichthyes (), popularly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse superclass of fish that have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue. They can be contrasted with the Chondrichthyes, which have skeletons primarily composed of cartilag ...

erected by

David Starr Jordan David Starr Jordan (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was the founding president of Stanford University, serving from 1891 to 1913. He was an ichthyologist during his research career. Prior to serving as president of Stanford Univer ...

in 1919.

Fossil record

This genus is known in the fossil record from the

Late Jurassic The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 163.5 ± 1.0 to 145.0 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.Owen 1987. In European lithostratigraphy, the name ...

(

Kimmeridgian In the geologic timescale, the Kimmeridgian is an age in the Late Jurassic Epoch and a stage in the Upper Jurassic Series. It spans the time between 157.3 ± 1.0 Ma and 152.1 ± 0.9 Ma (million years ago). The Kimmeridgian follows the Oxfordian ...

) to the

Aptian The Aptian is an age in the geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is a subdivision of the Early or Lower Cretaceous Epoch or Series and encompasses the time from 121.4 ± 1.0 Ma to 113.0 ± 1.0 Ma (million years ago), a ...

stage of the

Early Cretaceous The Early Cretaceous ( geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name), is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous. It is usually considered to stretch from 145 Ma to 100.5 Ma. Geology Pro ...

epoch (age range: from 150.8 to 109.0 million years ago.).Sepkoski, Jack (2002
A compendium of fossil marine animal genera
Bulletins of American Paleontology Fossils within this genus have been found in the Marizal, Romualdo and

Missão Velha Formation The Missão Velha Formation is a late Jurassic geologic formation in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin where the states of Pernambuco, Piauí and Ceará come together. The formation is the middle stratigraphic unit of the Vale do Carirí Group, ...

s of Brazil, Tlayua Formation of Mexico,

Apón Formation The Apón Formation is a geological formation in northwestern Venezuela (Maracaibo Basin) and northern Colombia (La Guajira),García González et al., 2010 whose thick-bedded limestone interbedded with subordinate amounts of dark gray calcareous s ...

of Venezuela and Ameghino Formation of Antarctica.''Vinctifer''
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Species

Three species have been described:"Genus ''Vinctifer'' †"
''BioLib''. * ''Vinctifer comptoni'' * ''Vinctifer ferrusquiai'' * ''Vinctifer longirostris''

References

Late Jurassic fish Early Cretaceous fish Mesozoic fish of North America Cretaceous Mexico Fossils of Mexico Prehistoric fish of South America Cretaceous Brazil Fossils of Brazil Cretaceous Venezuela Fossils of Venezuela Prehistoric fish of Antarctica Jurassic Antarctica Fossils of Antarctica Fossil taxa described in 1919 {{Cretaceous-fish-stub