Biology:Bathysoma
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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes
| Bathysoma Temporal range: Danian
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| Genus: | Bathysoma
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| Species: | B. lutkeni Davis, 1890
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Bathysoma lutkeni is an extinct lamprid from the Danian age of Sweden, and is the second oldest lamprid known, after Nardovelifer of Campanian/Maastrichtian Italy. B. lutkeni has a disk-shaped body and an elongated head. It was originally described as a menid bony fish. Later, it was described as being a basal snake mackerel.[1] Eventually, anatomical similarities with the Turkmenids were noted, and B. lutkeni is now regarded as an extremely basal lamprid.
References
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q4869212 entry
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