Biology:Eosaurichthys

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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes


Eosaurichthys
Temporal range: Changhsingian[1]
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Eosaurichthys

Liu and Wei, 1988
Binomial name
Eosaurichthys chaoi
Liu and Wei 1988

Eosaurichthys is an extinct genus of saurichthyid ray-finned fish that lived during the late Permian epoch (Changhsingian age) in what is now China .[1]

Taxonomy

Eosaurichthys is often treated as a subgenus of Saurichthys rather than a genus, with its type species referred to as Saurichthys (Eosaurichthys) chaoi.[2] The Early Triassic species Saurichthys madagascariensis has been referred to this subgenus as Saurichthys (Eoaurichthys) madagascariensis.[3][4]

Appearance

Eosaurichthys closely resembles its daughter genus, Saurichthys, in both form and morphology. Its body is fully covered by scales, while in Saurichthys the scale cover is reduced.[2][5]

See also

  • Prehistoric fish
  • List of prehistoric bony fish

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class. Retrieved 2009-04-24. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Tintori, Andrea (2013). "A new species of Saurichthys (Actinopterygii) from the Middle Triassic (early Ladinian) of the northern Grigna Mountain (Lombardy, Italy)". Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 119 (3): 287–302. doi:10.13130/2039-4942/6041. 
  3. Maxwell, E.E.; Romano, C.; Wu, F.-X. (2021). "Regional disparity in the axial skeleton of Saurichthyidae and implications for axial regionalization in non‐teleostean actinopterygians.". Journal of Zoology 315: 29–41. doi:10.1111/jzo.12878. 
  4. Silvio Renesto; Fabio Magnani; Rudolf Stockar (2021). "A new species of Saurichthys (Actinopterygii: Saurichtydae) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio". Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 127 (1): 49–71. doi:10.13130/2039-4942/15143. https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/15143. 
  5. Romano C., Kogan I., Jenks J., Jerjen I., Brinkmann W. (2012). "Saurichthys and other fossil fishes from the late Smithian (Early Triassic) of Bear Lake County (Idaho, USA), with a discussion of saurichthyid palaeogeography and evolution". Bulletin of Geosciences 87: 543–570. doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1337. http://www.geology.cz/bulletin/fulltext/1337_Romano.pdf. 

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