Biology:Eurypholis

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Eurypholis (meaning "broad scale") is a genus of prehistoric marine aulopiform fish known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Campanian). It contains three species, known from Europe, the Middle East, and east Asia.[1][2]

The following species are known:[1][2][3]

  • E. boissieri Pictet, 1850 (type species) - Cenomanian of Lebanon (Sannine Formation) (=E. sulcidens Pictet, 1850)
  • E. japonicus Uyeno & Minakawa, 1983 - Campanian of Shikoku, Japan (Izumi Group)[4]
  • E. pulchellus (Woodward, 1901) - Cenomanian of England (English Chalk) (=Enchodus pulchellus Woodward, 1901)[5][6]
E. boissieri, Natural History Museum, Grenoble

Potential indeterminate remains are known from the Cenomanian of Uzbekistan and the Maastrichtian of Greece, though a review of the Greek records has found no evidence of these remains belonging to Eurypholis.[2][7]

Of these species, E. boissieri is known from many complete, articulated skeletons, E. pulchellus is known from fragmentary specimens, and E. japonicus is known from a single mandible (closely resembling that of pulchellus) with very large attached teeth.[1][4][5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Silva, Hilda M. A.; Gallo, Valéria (2011). "Taxonomic review and phylogenetic analysis of Enchodontoidei (Teleostei: Aulopiformes)" (in en). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 83 (2): 483–511. doi:10.1590/S0001-37652011000200010. ISSN 0001-3765. PMID 21670874. https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/vPvQZ4v493QvhCLL9wh9zDb/. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "PBDB Taxon". https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35565. 
  3. Díaz-Cruz, Jesús Alberto; Alvarado-Ortega, Jesús; Carbot-Chanona, Gerardo (2019-04-01). "Dagon avendanoi gen. and sp. nov., an Early Cenomanian Enchodontidae (Aulopiformes) fish from the El Chango quarry, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico". Journal of South American Earth Sciences 91: 272–284. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2019.01.014. ISSN 0895-9811. Bibcode2019JSAES..91..272D. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895981118304073. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Uyeno, Teruya; Minakawa, Tetsuo (1983). "A New Enchodontoid Fish of the Genus Eurypholis from the Cretaceous of Japan". Bulletin of the National Science Museum Series C 9 (2). https://www.kahaku.go.jp/research/publication/geology/download/09_2/BNSM_C090202.pdf. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Geology, British Museum (Natural History) Department of; Woodward, Arthur Smith (1901) (in en). Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History): Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the suborders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini. order of the Trustees. https://books.google.com/books?id=ZtEKAQAAIAAJ. 
  6. 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. Bibcode2016GSLSP.430..165F. https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10.1144/sp430.18. 
  7. Argyriou, Thodoris; Davesne, Donald (2021-01-20). "Offshore marine actinopterygian assemblages from the Maastrichtian–Paleogene of the Pindos Unit in Eurytania, Greece" (in en). PeerJ 9. doi:10.7717/peerj.10676. ISSN 2167-8359. PMID 33552722. 

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