Biology:Enniskillenus
Enniskillenus is an extinct genus of prehistoric billfish from the Eocene of Europe. It contains a single species, E. radiatus from the Early Eocene-aged London Clay of England.[1][2]
The species was first improperly named without a description (as Ptychocephalus radiatus) by Agassiz (1833), and later assigned as an indeterminate member of Palaeorhynchus by Woodward (1901).[3] It was properly described by Casier in 1966,[3] who placed it in the new genus Enniskillenus, named in honor of William Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen, who collected fossil fish and donated specimens to the British Museum.[4]
Although often placed in the primitive billfish family Palaeorhynchidae, most specimens of Enniskillenus do not preserve enough traits for a refined classification, though their vertebral morphology and rostra confirm that they are at least billfish.[3]
References
- Enniskillenus, Paleobiology Database
- ↑ "PBDB Taxon". https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35642.
- ↑ "Enniskillenus radiatus – London Clay Fossils" (in en-US). https://londonclayfossils.com/ray-finned-fish-selection/scombriformes-selection-page/enniskillenus-radiatus/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Monsch, Kenneth A. (2004). "Revision of the scombroid fishes from the Cenozoic of England" (in en). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 95 (3–4): 445–489. doi:10.1017/S0263593300001164. ISSN 1755-6929. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/earth-and-environmental-science-transactions-of-royal-society-of-edinburgh/article/abs/revision-of-the-scombroid-fishes-from-the-cenozoic-of-england/4C0CBDC19BB39C4709617722D6FBE64C.
- ↑ Friedman, Matt; Beckett, Hermione T.; Close, Roger A.; Johanson, Zerina (2016). "The English Chalk and London Clay: two remarkable British bony fish Lagerstätten". Geological Society, London, Special Publications 430 (1): 165–200. doi:10.1144/SP430.18. https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10.1144/sp430.18.
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