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Aluvarus

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Aluvarus
Temporal range: Priabonian
Artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Clade: Percomorpha
Genus: Aluvarus
Bannikov & Tyler, 1995
Species:
A. praeimperialis
Binomial name
Aluvarus praeimperialis
(Arambourg, 1967)
Synonyms
  • Luvarus praeimperialis Arambourg, 1967

Aluvarus praeimperialis is an extinct ray-finned fish, known from two headless larval fossil specimens found in the Pabdeh Formation, a Late Eocene stratum from the Priabonian epoch, of what is now Iran.[1][2][3] A. praeimperialis was originally thought to be a luvar, described as "Luvarus praeimperialis", as it was thought to be a predecessor to the modern luvar. A later reexamination of the specimens showed that they were too incomplete to demonstrate such a conclusion and had no clear exclusive shared traits with luvar, and were renamed "Aluvarus", meaning "not luvar" or "different than luvar".[4] However, some authorities still retain it as a luvar.[1]

The Pabdeh Formation was originally dated to the early Oligocene, but more recent analysis indicates it to be from the mid-late Eocene, most likely the Priabonian. It inhabited an open ocean habitat with a significant deepwater component to the fauna.[2][3]

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  1. ^ a b "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-16.
  2. ^ a b Bannikov, A. F.; Erebakan, I. G. (2023-10-01). "On the Evolution of Some Groups of Marine Bony Fishes in the Cenozoic of the Tethys and Paratethys". Paleontological Journal. 57 (5): 475–490. doi:10.1134/S0031030123050015. ISSN 1555-6174.
  3. ^ a b Bahrami, Ali (2014). "A new deep-sea hatchetfish (Teleostei: Stomiiformes: Sternoptychidae) from the Eocene of Ilam, Zagros Basin, Iran". Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana. 53 (1): 27–37.
  4. ^ Bannikov, Alexandre F.; Tyler, James C. (1995). "Phylogenetic Revision of the Fish Families Luvaridae and Kushlukiidae (Acanthuroidei), with a New Genus and Two New Species of Eocene Luvarids". Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology (81): 1–45. doi:10.5479/si.00810266.81.1. hdl:10088/19149.