Biology:Orthocormus
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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes
| Orthocormus | |
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| Fossil of Orthocormus cornutus | |
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| Restoration of Orthocormus cornutus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Pachycormiformes |
| Family: | †Pachycormidae |
| Genus: | †Orthocormus Weitzel,1930 |
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| Orthocormus cornutus Weitzel,1930
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Orthocormus is an extinct genus of prehistoric pachycormiform bony fish.[1] It is known from three species found in Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) aged plattenkalk deposits in Bavaria, Germany.[2] The species "Hypsocormus" tenuirostris Woodward 1889 from the late Middle Jurassic (Callovian) Oxford Clay is not closely related to the type species of Hypsocormus, and is more closely related to Orthocormus + Protosphyraena, and thus has sometimes been referred to in open nomenclature as Orthocormus? tenuirostris.[3] The species of Orthocormus reached over a metre in length, and are thought to have been pelagic predators.[3]
See also
- Prehistoric fish
- List of prehistoric bony fish
References
- ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: 560. http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ↑ Arratia, Gloria; Schultze, Hans-Peter (2013). "Outstanding features of a new Late Jurassic pachycormiform fish from the Kimmeridgian of Brunn, Germany and comments on current understanding of pachycormiforms". Mesozoic Fishes 5 - Global Diversity and Evolution Editors: Gloria Arratia, Hans-Peter Schultze, Mark V. H. Wilson (Verlag Dr. F. Pfeil): 87–120. http://bionames.org/references/2cceff9865614fe77e7b8f337e18c502.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Maxwell, Erin; Lambers, Paul; Lopez-Arbarello, Adriana; Schweigert, Günter (2020). "Re-evaluation of pachycormid fishes from the Late Jurassic of Southwestern Germany". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65. doi:10.4202/app.00749.2020. ISSN 0567-7920. http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00749.2020.
External links
- "Pachycormiformes". Paleobiology Database. http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=basicTaxonInfo&taxon_no=35232. Retrieved November 11, 2012.
Wikidata ☰ Q7104427 entry
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