Biology:Cladocyclus
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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes
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| Genus: | Cladocyclus Agassiz, 1843
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Cladocyclus (derived from the Greek κλάδος/kládos ("branch") and κύκλος/kýklos ("circle")[1]) is an extinct genus of Ichthyodectidae. It was a predatory fish of about 1.20 metres (3.9 ft) in length, found in the Albian Romualdo and Crato Formations of the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil.[2] The species Cladocyclus geddesi is known from the Winton Formation of Australia.[3] Cladocyclus pankowskii, discovered in the Cenomanian Kem Kem Bed of Morocco in 2007,[4] is reclassified to genus Aidachar.[5]
Gallery
Cladocyclus gardneri
Fossil in Vienna
References
- ↑ NOMENCLATOR ZOOLOGICUS – NOMENCLATORE ZOOLOGICO. Pisces
- ↑ "Cladocyclus Ichthyodectoid Cretaceous Fossil Fish". Archived from the original on July 9, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090709063933/http://www.paleodirect.com/pgset2/fbr-007.htm.
- ↑ Berrell; Alvarado-Ortega; Yabumoto; Salisbury, Rodney W.; Jesús; Yoshitaka; Steven W. (7 June 2014). "The First Record of the Ichthyodectiform Fish Cladocyclus from Eastern Gondwana: A New Species from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 59 (4): 903–902. doi:10.4202/app.2012.0019.
- ↑ Forey, Peter L.; Cavin, Lionel (2007). "A new species of Cladocyclus (Teleostei: Ichthyodectiformes) from the Cenomanian of Morocco". Palaeontologia Electronica. http://palaeo-electronica.org/2007_3/133/133.pdf.
- ↑ Mkhitaryan, T.G.; Averianov, A.O. (2011-06-25). "New material and phylogenetic position of Aidachar paludalis Nesov, 1981 (Actinopterygii, Ichthyodectiformes) from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan". Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 315 (2): 181–192. doi:10.31610/trudyzin/2011.315.2.181. ISSN 0206-0477.
Wikidata ☰ Q5124942 entry
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