Aidachar

Aidachar; Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian–Turonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Life restoration of A. paludalis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	†Ichthyodectiformes
Family:	†Cladocyclidae
Genus:	†Aidachar; Nesov, 1981
Species
	A. paludalis Nesov, 1981 (type); A. pankowskii (Forey et al. 2007);

Aidachar (named for Aydahar, a mythical Kazakh dragon) is an extinct genus of marine ichthyodectiform teleost ray-finned fish from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian)^[1] of Central Asia and North Africa.

The type species is A. paludalis, named by Lev Nesov in 1981 from remains discovered in the Kyzyl Kum desert of Uzbekistan.^[2] At first, he tentatively described the fossil material as the jaw fragments of a ctenochasmatid pterosaur (a flying reptile), but reinterpreted Aidachar as a fish in 1986.^[2]^[3] The second species, A. pankowskii, is described from Kem Kem Group of Morocco and reclassified from the genus Cladocyclus, to which it is thought to be closely related.^[4]^[5]

References

^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
^ ^a ^b Nesov, Lev A. (1981). "[Flying reptiles from the Late Cretaceous of Kyzyl-Kum]". Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal (in Russian). 15: 98–104.
^ Nesov, Lev A. (1986). "[The first finding of the Late Cretaceous bird Ichthyornis in the old world and some other bird bones from the Cretaceous and Paleogene of Middle Asia]". In Potapova, R. L. (ed.). [Ecological and Faunistic Investigations of Birds. Proceedings of the Geological Institute, Leningrad] 147 (in Russian). pp. 31–38.
^ 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.
^ Cavin, Lionel; Boudad, Larbi; Tong, Haiyan; Läng, Emilie; Tabouelle, Jérôme; Vullo, Romain (2015-05-27). "Taxonomic Composition and Trophic Structure of the Continental Bony Fish Assemblage from the Early Late Cretaceous of Southeastern Morocco". PLOS ONE. 10 (5): e0125786. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1025786C. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0125786. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4446216. PMID 26018561.