Biology:Aidachar
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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes
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| Life restoration of A. paludalis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Ichthyodectiformes |
| Family: | †Cladocyclidae |
| Genus: | †Aidachar Nesov, 1981 |
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Aidachar (named for Aydahar, a mythical Kazakh dragon) is an extinct genus of marine ichthyodectiform teleost ray-finned fish from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian)[1] of Central Asia and North Africa.
The type species is A. paludalis, named by Lev Nesov in 1981 from remains discovered in the Kyzyl Kum desert of Uzbekistan.[2] At first, he tentatively described the fossil material as the jaw fragments of a ctenochasmatid pterosaur (a flying reptile), but reinterpreted Aidachar as a fish in 1986.[2][3] The second species, A. pankowskii, is described from Kem Kem Group of Morocco and reclassified from the genus Cladocyclus, to which it is thought to be closely related.[4][5]
References
- ↑ "PBDB". https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=249796.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nesov, Lev A. (1981). "[Flying reptiles from the Late Cretaceous of Kyzyl-Kum]" (in Russian). Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 15: 98–104.
- ↑ Nesov, Lev A. (1986). "[The first finding of the Late Cretaceous bird Ichthyornis in the old world and some other bird bones from the Cretaceous and Paleogene of Middle Asia]". in Potapova, R. L. (in Russian). [Ecological and Faunistic Investigations of Birds. Proceedings of the Geological Institute, Leningrad] 147. pp. 31–38.
- ↑ Mkhitaryan, T.G.; Averianov, A.O. (2011-06-25). "New material and phylogenetic position of Aidachar paludalis Nesov, 1981 (Actinopterygii, Ichthyodectiformes) from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan". Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 315 (2): 181–192. doi:10.31610/trudyzin/2011.315.2.181. ISSN 0206-0477.
- ↑ Cavin, Lionel; Boudad, Larbi; Tong, Haiyan; Läng, Emilie; Tabouelle, Jérôme; Vullo, Romain (2015-05-27). "Taxonomic Composition and Trophic Structure of the Continental Bony Fish Assemblage from the Early Late Cretaceous of Southeastern Morocco" (in en). PLOS ONE 10 (5): e0125786. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0125786. ISSN 1932-6203. PMID 26018561. Bibcode: 2015PLoSO..1025786C.
External links
- The Pterosaur Species List, 3rd Edition (pdf). Compiled by Michael Hanson.
Wikidata ☰ Q4696657 entry
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