Cryptoberyx
Appearance
Cryptoberyx Temporal range:
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Superorder: | Acanthopterygii |
Genus: | †Cryptoberyx Gaudant, 1978 |
Species | |
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Cryptoberyx is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the late Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous.[1][2][3] Two species are known from southern Europe and the Middle East, both part of the former Tethys Sea.
The following species are known:[4][5]
- †C. minimus Gaudant, 1978 (type species) - Cenomanian of Lebanon (Sannine Formation)[3]
- †C. brevis Gaudant, 1978 - Cenomanian of Portugal
The holotype of C. minimus was initially used by Arthur Smith Woodward as a paratype of Lissoberyx dayi, until later studies found it to represent a different genus entirely.[3]
Cryptoberyx was previously considered a beryciform under a former paraphyletic view of the order (which also included the Trachichthyiformes and Holocentriformes), as a stem-group "trachichthyoid".[6] With the splitting of these two orders, its taxonomic identity is unclear.[4][7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-06-26.
- ^ a b c Gaudant, Mireille (1978-01-01). "Implications taxonomiques du caractere composite de l'hypodigme du genre Lissoberyx Patterson (poisson teleosteen, beryciforme): Creation du genre Cryptoberyx". Geobios. 11 (5): 787–791. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(78)80012-6. ISSN 0016-6995.
- ^ a b Amalfitano, Jacopo; Giusberti, Luca; Fornaciari, Eliana; Carnevale, Giorgio (2020-04-03). "UPPER CENOMANIAN FISHES FROM THE BONARELLI LEVEL (OAE2) OF NORTHEASTERN ITALY". Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 126 (2). doi:10.13130/2039-4942/13224. ISSN 2039-4942.
- ^ Murray, Alison M. (2014). "Mid-Cretaceous acanthomorph fishes with the description of a new species from the Turonian of Lac des Bois, Northwest Territories, Canada". Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology. 1: 101–115. doi:10.18435/B5CC78. ISSN 2292-1389.
- ^ Patterson, Colin (1993-01-01). "An Overview of the Early Fossil Record of Acanthomorphs". Bulletin of Marine Science. 52 (1): 29–59.
- ^ Alvarado-Ortega, Jesús; Than-Marchese, Bruno Andrés (2013). "The first record of a North American Cenomanian Trachichthyidae fish (Acanthomorpha, Acanthopterygii), Pepemkay maya , gen. et sp. nov., from El Chango Quarry (Sierra Madre Formation), Chiapas, Mexico". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (1): 48–57. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.712585. ISSN 0272-4634.