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Phyllodus
Temporal range: 68–50 Ma
FOS503
Fossil Vomer
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Albuliformes
Family: †Phyllodontidae
Genus: †Phyllodus
Species
  • P. bucklandi
  • P. curvidens
  • P. elegans
  • P. hipparionyx
  • P. marginalis
  • P. paulkatoi
  • P. planus
  • P. polyodus
  • P. toliapicus

Phyllodus is an extinct genus of bony fish from the Maastrichtian to Middle Miocene. Fossils of the genus have been found in the Maastrichtian to Danian Hell Creek Formation , the Eocene London Clay , the Early eocene Nanjemoy formation.[1][2] and the Paleocene of South Carolina.[3]

Classification

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It was assigned to Actinoteri by Cope (1875)[4]; to Phyllodontinae by Estes and Hiatt (1978)[5]; to Labridae by Hay (1902)[6], Leriche (1942)[7], Rapp (1946) and Thurmond and Jones (1981)[8]; to Anguilliformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Phyllodontidae by Casier (1946)[9], Casier (1966)[10], Bryant (1989)[11], Weems (1998)[12], Weems (1999)[13] and Ebersole et al. (2019)[14].

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Phyllodus pharyngeal plates from the Eocene of Virginia". The Fossil Forum. 2019-10-28. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
  2. ^ Gildersleeve, Benjamin (1933). "Pharyngeal plates of Phyllodus from the Virginia Eocene". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 23 (8): 380–389. ISSN 0043-0439. JSTOR 24530350.
  3. ^ Weems, Robert E. (1998). "Actinopterygian Fish Remains from the Paleocene of South Carolina". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 88 (4): 147–164. doi:10.2307/1006672. JSTOR 1006672.
  4. ^ Cope, E. D. (1882). Contributions to the history of the vertebrata of the Lower Eocene of Wyoming and New Mexico made during 1881 /. [Philadelphia?]: [publisher not identified]. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.166590.
  5. ^ Estes, Richard (1969-06-03). "Studies on Fossil Phyllodont Fishes: Interrelationships and Evolution in the Phyllodontidae (Albuloidei)". Copeia. 1969 (2): 317–331. doi:10.2307/1442082. ISSN 0045-8511. JSTOR 1442082.
  6. ^ Hay, Oliver Perry (1902). Bibliography and catalogue of the fossil vertebrata of North America. Washington: Govt. Print. Off. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.20094.
  7. ^ Καρακίτσιος, Βασίλειος (1979). CONTRIBUTION A L'ETUDE GEOLOGIQUE DES HELLENIDES. ETUDE DE LA REGION DE SELLIA (CRETE MOYENNE-OCCIDENTALE, GRECE): LES RELATIONS LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIQUES ET STRUCTURALES ENTRE LA SERIE DES PHYLLADES ET LA SERIE CARBONATEE DE TRIPOLITZA (Thesis). National Documentation Centre (EKT). doi:10.12681/eadd/4638.
  8. ^ D. L. D. (1982). "J. T. Thurmond & D. E. Jones 1981. Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama. ix + 244 pp., 88 figs. Alabama: University of Alabama Press. Price £13.50. ISBN 0 8173 0006 6". Geological Magazine. 119 (2): 222–224. Bibcode:1982GeoM..119..222D. doi:10.1017/s0016756800025978. ISSN 0016-7568.
  9. ^ Goetghebuer, Maurice. (1921). Chironomides de Belgique et spécialement de la zone des Flandres. Mémoires du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique. Bruxelles: M. Hayez, imprimeur de l'Académie royale de Belgique. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.52331.
  10. ^ Schaeffer, Bobb (1967). "Faune Ichthyologique du London Clay.Edgard Casier". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 42 (3): 423–424. doi:10.1086/405419. ISSN 0033-5770.
  11. ^ Archibald, J. David; Bryant, Laurie J. (1990), Differential Cretaceous/Tertiary extinctions of nonmarine vertebrates; Evidence from northeastern Montana, Geological Society of America Special Papers, vol. 247, Geological Society of America, pp. 549–562, doi:10.1130/spe247-p549, ISBN 0-8137-2247-0, retrieved 2024-11-25
  12. ^ Weems, Robert E. (1998). "Actinopterygian Fish Remains from the Paleocene of South Carolina". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 88 (4): 147–164. doi:10.2307/1006672. ISSN 0065-9746. JSTOR 1006672.
  13. ^ Sweet, Palmer C. (1974). "Mineral-And Fossil-Collecting Localities in Virginia". Rocks & Minerals. 49 (9): 507–510. Bibcode:1974RoMin..49..507S. doi:10.1080/00357529.1974.11762283. ISSN 0035-7529.
  14. ^ Ebersole, Jun A.; Cicimurri, David J.; Stringer, Gary L. (2019-12-06). "Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths". European Journal of Taxonomy (585). doi:10.5852/ejt.2019.585. ISSN 2118-9773.

Further reading

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  • Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 215)


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