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Extinct genus of fishes
Ctenognathichthys is an
extinct
genus of prehistoric marine
ray-finned fish that lived during the
Middle Triassic
epoch of Europe, in the former
Tethys Ocean .
[1]
[2]
Taxonomy and occurrence
It contains a single species, C. bellottii from the
Anisian –
Ladinian -aged
Besano Formation of
Monte San Giorgio area (Swiss-Italian borderland)
[3] , the early Ladinian
Prosanto Formation of canton
Graubünden , Switzerland, and possibly the late Ladinian
Alcover Unit of Spain.
[2]
[4]
[5] Indeterminate remains are known from the middle Anisian of the
Strelovec Formation of
Slovenia .
[6] A second species (C. hattichi Bürgin & Herzog 2002 ) from the Prosanto Formation was previously placed in this genus, but a 2009 study placed it in the new genus
Luopingichthys alongside a species from China.
[7]
Classification
Ctenognathichthys was first classified as a member of the
family
Perleididae and
order
Perleidiformes , a group that is now considered
paraphyletic .
[3] More recently, it has been reclassified into the family
Louwoichthyidae (order
Louwoichthyiformes ).
[8]
Description
Ctenognathichthys sp. fossil showing the elongate prehensile teeth
It was a small fish measuring 21 cm (8.3 in) in total length.
[9] It had long prehensile teeth in its upper and lower jaws.
[3]
See also
References
^
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 .
^
a
b
"PBDB Taxon" . paleobiodb.org . Retrieved 2024-06-27 .
^
a
b
c Bürgin, T. (1992). "Basal ray-finned fishes (Osteichthyes; Actinopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Canton Tessin, Switzerland). Systematic palaeontology with notes on functional morphology and palaeoecology". Schweizerische Paläontologische Abhandlungen . 114 : 1–164.
^ Bürgin, T.; Herzog, A. (2002).
"Die Gattung Ctenognathichthys (Actinopterygii, Perleidformes) aus der Prosanto-Formation (Ladin, Mitteltrias) Graubündens (Schweiz), mit der Beschreibung einer neuen Art, C. hattichi sp. nov" . Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae . 95 : 461–469.
^ Cartanyà, Joan; Fortuny, Josep; Bolet, Arnau; Garcia Artigas, Ruben (2019-05-24).
"Moradebrichthys vilasecae gen. et sp. nov., a new perleidid (Actinopterygii: Osteichthyes) from the Middle Triassic of Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula)" . Articles publicats en revistes (Mineralogia, Petrologia i Geologia Aplicada) .
ISSN
0077-7749 .
^ Križnar, Matija; Tintori, Andrea.
"The Kingdom of Tethys - The Fossilized World of Triassic Vertebrates from the Kamniško-Savinjske Alps / Kraljestvo Tetide - Okamneli svet triasnih vretenčarjev Kamniško-Savinjskih Alp" . Scopolia - Suppl. 5 (Journal of the Slovenian Museum of Natural History) .
^ Sun, Z.; Tintori, A.; Jiang, D.; Lombardo, C.; Rusconi, M.; Hao, W.; Sun, Y. (2009).
"A New Perleidiform (Actinopterygii, Osteichthyes) from the Middle Anisian (Middle Triassic) of Yunnan, South China" . Acta Geologica Sinica . 83 (3): 460–470.
doi :
10.1111/j.1755-6724.2009.00067.x .
S2CID
131017922 .
^ Xu, G.-H. (2020).
"A new stem-neopterygian fish from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) of Yunnan, China, with a reassessment of the relationships of early neopterygian clades" . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 191 (2): 375–394.
doi :
10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa053 .
^ Rieppel, O. (2019). Mesozoic Sea Dragons: Triassic Marine Life from the Ancient Tropical Lagoon of Monte San Giorgio . Indiana University Press. p. 54.
doi :
10.2307/j.ctvd58t86 .
ISBN
978-0253040114 .
S2CID
241534158 .