Homonotichthys

Homonotichthys
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Polymixiiformes
Family: Polymixiidae
Genus: †Homonotichthys
Whitley, 1933
Type species
†Homonotus dorsalis
Dixon, 1850
Species
  • H. dorsalis (Dixon, 1850)
  • H. pulchellus (Dixon, 1850)
  • H. rotundus (Woodward, 1902)
Synonyms

Homonotichthys is an extinct genus of beardfish known from the Late Cretaceous of Europe. Three species are known from the Cenomanian to Turonian of England.[1] The genus name Homonotichthys was coined to replace the genus name Homonotus, preoccupied by a genus of pompilid wasp, which the species were originally placed in.[2]

The following species are known:[3][4]

  • †H. dorsalis (Dixon, 1850) - Cenomanian to Turonian of England (English Chalk)
  • †H. pulchellus (Dixon, 1850) - Cenomanian of England (English Chalk)
  • †H. rotundus (Woodward, 1902) - Cenomanian of England (English Chalk)[5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2008-04-30. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. ↑ Patterson, C. (1964). "A Review of Mesozoic Acanthopterygian Fishes, with Special Reference to Those of the English Chalk". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 247 (739): 213–482. ISSN 0080-4622.
  3. ↑ Geology, British Museum (Natural History) Department of; Woodward, Arthur Smith (1901). Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History): Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the suborders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini. order of the Trustees.
  4. ↑ Friedman, Matt; Beckett, Hermione T.; Close, Roger A.; Johanson, Zerina (2016). "The English Chalk and London Clay: two remarkable British bony fish Lagerstätten". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 430 (1): 165–200. doi:10.1144/SP430.18.
  5. ↑ Woodward, Arthur Smith (1902). The Fossil Fishes of the English Chalk. Palaeontographical Society.


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