Vinctifer
Appearance
Vinctifer | |
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Fossil of Vinctifer comptoni | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | †Aspidorhynchiformes |
Family: | †Aspidorhynchidae |
Genus: | †Vinctifer Jordan, 1919 |
Vinctifer is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish erected by David Starr Jordan in 1919.
Fossil record
[edit]This genus is known in the fossil record from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) to the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous epoch (age range: from 150.8 to 109.0 million years ago.).[1] Fossils within this genus have been found in the Marizal, Romualdo and Missão Velha Formations of Brazil, Tlayua Formation of Mexico, Apón Formation of Venezuela and Nordenskjöld Formation of Antarctica.[1][2][3]
Species
[edit]Three species have been described:[4]
- Vinctifer comptoni Agassiz 1834
- Vinctifer ferrusquiai Cantalice, Alvarado-Ortega & Brito 2018
- Vinctifer longirostris Silva Santos 1972
References
[edit]- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera Bulletins of American Paleontology
- ^ Vinctifer at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Cantalice, Kleyton M.; Ortega, Jesús Alvarado; Brito, Paulo M. (2018). "On the occurrence of Vinctifer ferrusquiai sp. nov. (Actinopterygii, Aspidorhynchiformes) in the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) deposits near Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, southern Mexico". Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas. 35 (2): 179–187. doi:10.22201/cgeo.20072902e.2018.2.713.
- ^ "Genus Vinctifer †". BioLib.
Categories:
- Aspidorhynchiformes
- Late Jurassic fish
- Early Cretaceous fish
- Mesozoic fish of North America
- Cretaceous Mexico
- Fossils of Mexico
- Prehistoric fish of South America
- Cretaceous Brazil
- Fossils of Brazil
- Cretaceous Venezuela
- Fossils of Venezuela
- Prehistoric fish of Antarctica
- Jurassic Antarctica
- Fossils of Antarctica
- Fossil taxa described in 1919
- Taxa named by David Starr Jordan
- Prehistoric bony fish stubs
- Jurassic fish stubs
- Cretaceous fish stubs