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Carpathichthys

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Carpathichthys
Temporal range: Early Oligocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Alepocephaliformes
Family: Alepocephalidae
Genus: Carpathichthys
Jerzmanska, 1979
Species:
C. polonicus
Binomial name
Carpathichthys polonicus
Jerzmanska, 1979

Carpathichthys ("Carpathian fish") is an extinct genus of prehistoric slickhead fish from the Oligocene. It contains a single species, C. polonicus, from the Menilite Formation in the Carpathian Flysch Belt of Poland, in what was formerly the Paratethys Sea.[1][2]

It is one of the very few known fossil slickheads, a group of ray-finned fishes that are assumed to have ancient origins, but have almost no presence in the geological record, likely due to their preference for deep-water habitats.[3] The only other known fossil slickhead is an indeterminate member of Bathyprion from the same formation, indicating that it was likely deposited in an abyssal habitat.[2][4] Carpathichthys appears to be closely related to the extant genus Rouleina.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
  2. ^ a b c Jerzmanska, A. (1979). "Oligocene alepocephaloid fishes from the Polish Carpathians". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 24 (1). ISSN 0567-7920.
  3. ^ Near, Thomas J.; Thacker, Christine E. (2024). "Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii)". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 65 (1): 3–302. doi:10.3374/014.065.0101. ISSN 0079-032X.
  4. ^ Kotlarczyk, Janusz; Jerzmańska, Anna; Świdnicka, Ewa; Wiszniowska, Teresa (2006). "A framework of ichthyofaunal ecostratigraphy of the Oligocene-Early Miocene strata of the Polish Outer Carpathian basin". Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae. 76 (1): 1–111.
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