Biology:Plethodidae
From HandWiki
Short description: Extinct family of ray-finned fishes
| Plethodidae | |
|---|---|
| |
| Life restoration of Pentanogmius evolutus | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Tselfatiiformes |
| Family: | †Plethodidae Loomis, 1900 |
| Genera | |
|
Refer to § Genera | |
| Synonyms | |
| |
Plethodidae is an extinct family of teleost fish that existed during the Late Cretaceous period. Fossils are known from North America, North Africa, and Europe.
Description
The billfish-like Rhamphoichthys taxidiotis
Plethodids possessed thin, angelfish-like bodies and often had high dorsal fins which made them distinctive from other types of fish. Their skeletons were partially cartilaginous, though the amount varied from one species to another.[2]
Genera
Plethodidae contains the following genera:[3]
- Bachea
- Bananogmius
- Concavotectum?[4]
- Dixonanogmius
- Enischnorhynchus
- Luxilites
- Martinichthys
- Moorevillia
- Niobrara
- Paranogmius
- Pentanogmius
- Plethodus
- Pseudonogmius
- Pseudothryptodus
- Rhamphoichthys[5]
- Syntegmodus
- Thryptodus
- Tselfatia
- Zanclites
References
- ↑ GBIF. “Plethodidae – Checklist View.” Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Global Biodiversity Information Facility, 2014.
- ↑ Everhart, Mike (23 Aug 2011). "Plethodids". Oceans of Kansas. http://www.oceansofkansas.com/Plethodids.html. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
- ↑ Gayet, Mireille; Louis Taverne (2005). "Phylogenetical relationships and paleozoogeography of the marine Cretaceous Tselfatiiformes (Teleostei, Clupeocephala)". Cybium 29 (1): 65–87. Archived from the original on 2014-04-29. https://archive.today/20140429010926/http://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar?q=cache:4HTq-8YOTN0J:scholar.google.com/.
- ↑ Cooper, Samuel L. A.; Norton, Jack L. (2023-12-01). "Youngest occurrence of a plethodid fish (Teleostei: Tselfatiiformes: Plethodidae) from the Maastrichtian of North Africa". Cretaceous Research 152: 105673. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105673. ISSN 0195-6671. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019566712300201X.
- ↑ El Hossny, T.; Cavin, L.; Kaplan, U.; Schwermann, A. H.; Samankassou, E.; Friedman, M. (2023). "The first articulated skeletons of enigmatic Late Cretaceous billfish-like actinopterygians". Royal Society Open Science 10 (12). doi:10.1098/rsos.231296.
Wikidata ☰ Q16988252 entry
 |  |
