Biology:Megalopidae
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Megalopidae is an ancient family of ray-finned fish, one of two living members of the order Elopiformes.[1] It contains a single living genus (Megalops, the tarpons) with two species, and several extinct genera dating back to the Early Cretaceous. They likely diverged from their closest relatives, the Elopidae, during the Late Jurassic.[2]
Taxonomy
The following genera belong to this family:[2][3]
- Genus Megalops Lacépède, 1803 (=†Starrias Jordan, 1925) - Late Cretaceous (Campanian)[4] or Late Oligocene[5] to present
- Genus †Arratiaelops Taverne, 1999 - Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) of Belgium & England[6]
- Genus †Brouweria de Beaufort, 1926 - Early Miocene of Sulawesi, Indonesia[7]
- Genus †Elopoides Wenz, 1965 - Early Cretaceous (Albian) of France
- Genus †Ikawaihere Gottfried et al., 2026 - Paleogene of New Zealand[8]
- Genus †Paratarpon Bardack, 1970 - Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Alberta, Canada
- Genus †Promegalops Casier, 1966 - Early Eocene of England
- Genus †Protarpon Forey, 1973 - Late Paleocene to Early Eocene of Morocco & England[3]
- Genus †Sedenhorstia White & Moy-Thomas, 1941 - Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Campanian) of Lebanon and Germany
References
- ↑ Fricke, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Van der Laan, R. (2025). "ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION" (in en). https://www.calacademy.org/eschmeyers-catalog-of-fishes-classification.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Near, Thomas J.; Thacker, Christine E. (2024-04-18). "Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii)". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 65 (1): 101. doi:10.3374/014.065.0101. ISSN 0079-032X. Bibcode: 2024BPMNH..65..101N. https://bioone.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-peabody-museum-of-natural-history/volume-65/issue-1/014.065.0101/Phylogenetic-Classification-of-Living-and-Fossil-Ray-Finned-Fishes-Actinopterygii/10.3374/014.065.0101.full.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Khalloufi, Bouziane; El Houssaini Darif, Khadija; Jourani, Essaid; Khaldoune, Fatima; Jalil, Nour-Eddine (2019-10-21). "A new Palaeocene Megalopidae (Teleostei, Elopomorpha) from the phosphate basins of Morocco". Historical Biology 31 (9): 1256–1265. doi:10.1080/08912963.2018.1443327. ISSN 0891-2963. Bibcode: 2019HBio...31.1256K. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2018.1443327.
- ↑ STRINGER, GARY L.; SCHWARZHANS, WERNER; PHILLIPS, GEORGE; LAMBERT, ROGER (2020-02-05). "Highly Diversified Late Cretaceous Fish Assemblage Revealed by Otoliths (Ripley Formation and Owl Creek Formation, Northeast Mississippi, Usa)" (in en). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 126 (1): Vol. 126 No 1 (2020). doi:10.13130/2039-4942/13013. https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/13013.
- ↑ "PBDB Taxon". https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35338.
- ↑ Taverne, Louis (1999). "Ostéologie et position systématique d'Arratielops vectensis gen. nov., téléostéen élopiforme du Wealdien d'Angleterre et de Belgique.". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique - Bulletin van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen 69: 77–96. https://biblio.naturalsciences.be/rbins-publications/bulletin-of-the-royal-belgian-institute-of-natural-sciences-earth-sciences/bulletin-of-the-royal-belgian-institute-of-natural-sciences-earth-sciences/taverne_osteologie_1999.
- ↑ Khalloufi, Bouziane; El Houssaini Darif, Khadija; Jourani, Essaid; Khaldoune, Fatima; Jalil, Nour-Eddine (2018-02-25). "A new Palaeocene Megalopidae (Teleostei, Elopomorpha) from the phosphate basins of Morocco" (in en). Historical Biology: 1–10. doi:10.1080/08912963.2018.1443327. ISSN 0891-2963. Bibcode: 2019HBio...31.1256K. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2018.1443327.
- ↑ Gottfried, M. D.; Fordyce, R. E.; Robinson, J. H.; Lee, D. E. (2026). "A New Tarpon-Like Fish (Elopomorpha, Megalopidae) With Exceptional Preservation and Unusual Features From the Paleogene of Pitt Island, Chatham Islands, New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 69 (1). doi:10.1002/jgo2.70022.
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