Biology:Saurostomus

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Saurostomus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the early Toarcian stage of the Early Jurassic epoch.[1]

Palaeoecology

Fossils of Saurostomus esocinus containing coleoid gladii in their oesophagus have shown that the species fed on coleoids belonging to the species Teudopsis bollensis and on indeterminate loligosepiines.[2]

See also

  • Prehistoric fish

References

  1. 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. 
  2. Weis, Robert; Delsate, Dominique; Klug, Christian; Argyriou, Thodoris; Fuchs, Dirk (9 February 2024). "Pachycormid fish fed on octobrachian cephalopods: new evidence from the 'Schistes bitumineux' (early Toarcian) of southern Luxembourg" (in en). Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 143 (1). doi:10.1186/s13358-023-00295-1. ISSN 1664-2376. Bibcode2024SwJP..143....5W. 

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