Biology:Eokrefftia

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Eokrefftia ("dawn Krefftia") is an extinct genus of lanternfish that inhabited the seas around Europe and Australia throughout the Paleogene.[1][2] Known only from its distinctive fossilized otoliths, it appears to be one of the earliest definitive fossil members of the lanternfish lineage. It may belong to the extinct subfamily Eomyctophinae.[3]

The following species are known:[4]

  • †E. paviai Schwarzhans & Carnevale, 2024 - late Oligocene of Italy (Antognola Formation)[3]
  • †E. prediaphus Schwarzhans, 1985 (type species) - late Paleocene of South Australia (Dartmoor Formation)[2]
  • †E. sulci (Nolf, 1988) - Early to Late Eocene (Ypresian to Priabonian) of Italy (Marne di Monte Piano Formation), Middle Eocene (Lutetian) of France (Aquitaine Basin)[4][5] (=Diaphus sulci Nolf, 1988)

The otoliths of Eokrefftia can be easily confused with those of the extant lanternfish genus Diaphus, which are also present as fossils in the same deposits.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named sepkoskidb
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "PBDB Taxon". https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=txn:35616. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Schwarzhans, Werner W.; Carnevale, Giorgio (2024-10-04). "Fish Otoliths from the Upper Oligocene and Lower Miocene of the Monferrato and Turin Hill, Northern Italy" (in en). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 130 (3). doi:10.54103/2039-4942/23455. ISSN 2039-4942. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Schwarzhans, Werner; Carnevale, Giorgio (2022-07-19). "Bathyal Fish Otoliths from the Bartonian (Eocene) of the Turin Hill (Piedmont, Italy)". Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 128 (3). doi:10.54103/2039-4942/17086. ISSN 2039-4942. 
  5. ↑ Lin, Chien-Hsiang; Nolf, Dirk; Steurbaut, Etienne; Girone, Angela (2017-11-02). "Fish otoliths from the Lutetian of the Aquitaine Basin (SW France), a breakthrough in the knowledge of the European Eocene ichthyofauna". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15 (11): 879–907. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1246112. ISSN 1477-2019. Bibcode: 2017JSPal..15..879L. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14772019.2016.1246112. 

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