Biology:Neoceratodus
| Neoceratodus | |
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| Neoceratodus forsteri, the only surviving member of this genus. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Class: | Dipnoi |
| Order: | Ceratodontiformes |
| Family: | Neoceratodontidae |
| Genus: | Neoceratodus Castelnau, 1876 |
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Neoceratodus is a genus of lungfish in the family Neoceratodontidae. The extant Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) is the only surviving member of this genus, but it was formerly much more widespread, being distributed throughout Africa, Australia , and South America.[1] Species were also much more diverse in body plan; for example, the Cretaceous species Neoceratodus africanus was a gigantic species that coexisted with Spinosaurus in what is now the Kem Kem Formation of Morocco.[2] The earliest fossils from this genus are of Neoceratodus potkooroki from the mid Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) Griman Creek Formation of Australia; remains from the Late Jurassic of Uruguay assigned to this genus probably do not belong to the genus.[1][3][4]
Species
The following species are currently classified in this genus:[1]
- †Neoceratodus africanus
- †Neoceratodus eyrensis
- Neoceratodus forsteri (Queensland lungfish)
- †Neoceratodus potkooroki
- †Neoceratodus nargun
- †Neoceratodus palmeri
Two species formerly classified in Neoceratodus, N. gregoryi and N. djelleh, have since been reclassified to the genera Mioceratodus and Archaeoceratodus respectively, as Mioceratodus gregoryi and Archaeoceratodus djelleh.[5][6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Fossilworks: Neoceratodus". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=91691.
- ↑ Ijouiher, Jamale (2016-09-22) (in en). A reconstruction of the palaeoecology and environmental dynamics of the Bahariya Formation of Egypt. doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.2470v1. https://peerj.com/preprints/2470.
- ↑ Kemp, Anne; Cavin, Lionel; Guinot, Guillaume (2017-04-01). "Evolutionary history of lungfishes with a new phylogeny of post-Devonian genera" (in en). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 471: 209–219. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.12.051. ISSN 0031-0182. Bibcode: 2017PPP...471..209K.
- ↑ Kemp, Anne; Berrell, Rodney (2020-05-03). "A New Species of Fossil Lungfish (Osteichthyes: Dipnoi) from the Cretaceous of Australia" (in en). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40 (3): e1822369. doi:10.1080/02724634.2020.1822369. ISSN 0272-4634. Bibcode: 2020JVPal..40E2369K. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2020.1822369.
- ↑ Kemp, Anne (2018-04-03). "Adaptations to life in freshwater for Mioceratodus gregoryi, a lungfish from Redbank Plains, an Eocene locality in southeast Queensland, Australia". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 42 (2): 305–310. doi:10.1080/03115518.2017.1395076. ISSN 0311-5518. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2017.1395076.
- ↑ Kemp, A. (July 1997). "A revision of Australian Mesozoic and Cenozoic lungfish of the family Neoceratodontidae (Osteichthyes:Dipnoi), with a description of four new species" (in en). Journal of Paleontology 71 (4): 713–733. doi:10.1017/S0022336000040166. ISSN 0022-3360. Bibcode: 1997JPal...71..713K. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/revision-of-australian-mesozoic-and-cenozoic-lungfish-of-the-family-neoceratodontidae-osteichthyesdipnoi-with-a-description-of-four-new-species/E3A9ADCA82D5338CA8420BF78A570C02.
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