2010 in paleoichthyology

Fishes

Newly named jawless vertebrates

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Ariaspis arctata^[1]	Valid	Elliott Swift	Late Silurian		Canada	A heterostracan.

Newly named placoderms

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Bryantolepis williamsi^[2]	Valid	Elliott & Carr	Early Devonian	Water Canyon Formation	United States	A member of Arthrodira, a species of Bryantolepis.
Potangaspis^[3]	Valid	Zhu Min Wang Jun-qing Wang Shi-tao	early Emsian (Early Devonian)	Yukiang Formation	China	An antarctaspid arthrodire. The species is P. parvoculatus.

Newly named cartilaginous fishes

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Akaimia^[4]	Valid	Rees	Callovian – Oxfordian	Ogrodzieniec	Poland	A primitive carpet shark.
Avonacanthus^[5]	Valid	Maisey	Early Carboniferous		United Kingdom	A member of Elasmobranchii, possibly a heslerodid; a new genus for "Ctenacanthus" brevis Agassiz (1837).
Cretorectolobus robustus^[6]	Valid	Underwood Cumbaa	Cenomanian		Canada
Edaphodon hesperis^[7]	Valid	Shin	Campanian	Haslam Formation	Canada	A holocephalan, a species of Edaphodon.
Eoscymnus^[8]	Valid	Herman Van Den Eeckhaut	Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) to Eocene		Belgium France Morocco United States	An eoscymnid squaliform. The type species is Eoscymnus anthonisi.
Eostriatolamia paucicorrugata^[6]	Valid	Underwood Cumbaa	Cenomanian		Canada
Foumtizia deschutteri^[8]	Valid	Herman Van Den Eeckhaut	Eocene		Belgium	A catshark or a houndshark, a species of Foumtizia.
Jiaodontus^[9]	Valid	Klug Tütken et al.^{[CAL 1]}	Oxfordian	Qigu Formation	China	A lonchidiid hybodontiform.
Meristodonoides^[6]	Valid	Underwood Cumbaa	Aptian to Maastrichtian		Canada USA	A new genus for "Hybodus" rajkovichi (Case, 2001). Other species included in this genus are: "Hybodus" butleri (Thurmond, 1971), "Hybodus" montanensis (Case, 1978) and "Hybodus" novojerseyensis (Case and Cappetta, 2004).
Orectoloboides angulatus^[6]	Valid	Underwood Cumbaa	Cenomanian		Canada
Orectoloboides gijseni^[8]	Valid	Herman Van Den Eeckhaut	Eocene		Belgium	A wobbegong.
Palaeogenotodus^[8]	Junior synonym	Herman Van Den Eeckhaut	Early Cretaceous (Albian) to Eocene (Ypresian)		Angola Belgium France Morocco United Kingdom	Initially thought to be an eoptolamnid lamniform,^[8] subsequently assigned to Otodontidae. The type species is Paleogenotodus luypaertsi. Herman and Van Waes (2012) considered the genus Palaeogenotodus to be a synonym of the genus Otodus; the authors retained the type species P. luypaertsi as a distinct species within the genus Otodus.^[10]
Palaeoxyris friessi^[11]	Valid	Böttcher	Ladinian	Erfurt Formation	Germany	Egg capsule of a probable hybodont shark.
Ptychodus rhombodus^[6]	Valid	Underwood Cumbaa	Cenomanian		Canada
Roulletia canadensis^[6]	Valid	Underwood Cumbaa	Cenomanian		Canada
Telodontaspis^[6]	Valid	Underwood Cumbaa	Cenomanian		Canada	The type species is Telodontaspis agassizensis. Newbrey et al. (2013) considered this genus to be a junior synonym of the genus Cretoxyrhina, though they maintained the species T. agassizensis as a separate species within the genus Cretoxyrhina.^[12]
Triaenodon willei^[8]	Valid	Herman Van Den Eeckhaut	Eocene		Belgium	A relative of the whitetip reef shark.
Urobatis molleni^[13]	Valid	Hovestadt Hovestadt-Euler	Eocene (Ypresian to early Lutetian)	Aalter Formation	Belgium	A stingray, a species of Urobatis.
Welcommia cappettai^[14]	Valid	Klug Kriwet	Middle Oxfordian		Germany	A synechodontiform shark, a species of Welcommia.

Newly named bony fishes

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Bellwoodilabrus^[15]	Valid	Bannikov Carnevale	Eocene (late Ypresian)	Monte Bolca locality	Italy	A wrasse. The type species is Bellwoodilabrus landinii.
Bonnerichthys^[16]	Valid	Friedman Shimada et al.^{[CAL 2]}	Cenomanian	Niobrara Chalk Formation	USA	A gigantic pachycormid fish, a new genus for "Portheus" gladius (Cope, 1873).
Bullichthys^[17]	Valid	Mayrinck Brito Otero	Lower Cretaceous	Santana Formation	Brazil	An albuliform fish. The species is B. santanensis.
Enchodus zimapanensis^[18]	Valid	Fielitz González-Rodríguez	Albian to Cenomanian	El Doctor Formation	Mexico	An enchodontid aulopiform, a species of Enchodus.
Lavinia lugaskii^[19]	Valid	Kelly	Middle Miocene (early Clarendonian)	Aldrich Station Formation	United States	A cyprinid fish, a species of Lavinia.
Macropycnodon^[20]	Valid	Shimada Williamson Sealey	Upper Cretaceous	Mancos Shale Formation	USA	A gigantic pycnodont fish.
Polazzodus^[21]	Valid	Poyoto-Ariza	Late Cretaceous		Italy	A pycnodont fish. The species is P. coronatus.
Potamoceratodus^[22]	Valid	Pardo Huttenlocker et al.^{[CAL 3]}	Late Jurassic	Morrison Formation	USA	A lungfish, a new genus for "Ceratodus" guentheri (Marsh, 1878).
Pristigenys hermani^[23]	Valid	Taverne Nolf	Middle Eocene		Belgium	A priacanthid, a species of Pristigenys.
Rhinconichthys^[16]	Valid	Friedman Shimada et al.^{[CAL 2]}	Cenomanian		Japan UK	A gigantic pachycormid fish. The species is Rhinconichthys taylori
Rhombichthys^[24]	Valid	Khalloufi Zaragueta-Bagils Lelievre	Cenomanian	Ein Yabrud	West Bank	A double-armored member of the Ellimmichthyiformes.
Shuleichthys^[25]	Valid	Murry You Peng	Cretaceous		China	A osteoglossomorph fish. The species is S. brachypteryx.
Xeradipterus^[26]	Valid	Clement Long	Late Devonian (Frasnian)	Gogo Formation	Australia	A holodontid lungfish.

Notes

↑ Klug, Tütken, Wings, Pfretzschner, Martin.
↑ 2.0 2.1 Friedman, Shimada, Martin, Everhart, Liston, Maltese, Triebold.
↑ Pardo, Huttenlocker, Small, Gorman II.

References

↑ David K. Elliott and Sandra Swift (2010). "A new species of Ariaspis (Agnatha, Heterostraci) from the Late Silurian of the Canadian Arctic". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (6): 1874–1878. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.521900. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
↑ David K. Elliott and Robert K. Carr (2010). "A new species of Bryantolepis Camp, Welles, and Green, 1949 (Placodermi, Arthrodira) from the Early Devonian Water Canyon Formation of northern Utah and southern Idaho, with comments on the endocranium" (PDF). Kirtlandia 57: 22–35.
↑ ZHU Min, WANG Jun-qing, WANG Shi-tao. (2010). "A new antarctaspid arthrodire (placoderm fish) from the Lower Devonian of Guangxi, China" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica 48 (2): 101–110. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
↑ Jan Rees (2010). "Neoselachian sharks from the Callovian–Oxfordian (Jurassic) of Ogrodzieniec, Zawiercie Region, southern Poland". Palaeontology 53 (4): 887–902. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00967.x.
↑ John G. Maisey (2010). "Heslerodidae (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii), a new family of Paleozoic phalacanthous sharks" (PDF). Kirtlandia 57: 13–21.
↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Charlie J. Underwood and Stephen L. Cumbaa (2010). "Chondrichthyans from a Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) bonebed, Saskatchewan, Canada". Palaeontology 53 (4): 903–944. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00969.x.
↑ Ji-Yeon Shin (2010). "A new species of Edaphodon (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali) from the Upper Cretaceous Haslam Formation, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (4): 1012–1018. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.483538. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 Jacques Herman and Guy Van Den Eeckhaut (2010). "Inventaire systématique des Invertebrata, Vertebrata, Plantae et Fungi des Sables de Bruxelles à Zaventem" (PDF). Geominpal Belgica Découvertes géologiques, minéralogiques et paléontologiques en Belgique 1: 32–64.
↑ Stefanie Klug, Thomas Tütken, Oliver Wings, Hans-Ulrich Pfretzschner and Thomas Martin (2010). "A Late Jurassic freshwater shark assemblage (Chondrichthyes, Hybodontiformes) from the southern Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, Northwest China" (PDF). Palaeobiodiversity, Palaeoenvironments 90 (3): 241–257. doi:10.1007/s12549-010-0032-2. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
↑ Jacques Herman and Hilde Van Waes (2012). "Observations concernant l’Evolution et la Systématique de quelques Euselachii, Neoselachii et Batoidei (Pisces - Elasmobranchii), actuels et fossiles" (PDF). Geominpal Belgica Découvertes géologiques, minéralogiques et paléontologiques en Belgique 2: 1–89.
↑ Ronald Böttcher (2010). "Description of the shark egg capsule Palaeoxyris friessi n. sp. from the Ladinian (Middle Triassic) of SW Germany and discussion of all known egg capsules from the Triassic of the Germanic Basin" (PDF). Palaeodiversity 3: 123–139. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
↑ Michael G. Newbrey, Mikael Siverson, Todd D. Cook, Allison M. Fotheringham and Rebecca L. Sanchez (2013). "Vertebral morphology, dentition, age, growth, and ecology of the large lamniform shark Cardabiodon ricki". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. in press. doi:10.4202/app.2012.0047.
↑ Dirk Hovestadt and Maria Hovestadt-Euler (2010). "Urobatis molleni nov.sp. (Chondrichthyes – Myliobatiformes – Urolophidae) In the Eocene of Belgium" (PDF). Geominpal Belgica Découvertes géologiques, minéralogiques et paléontologiques en Belgique 1: 65–68.
↑ Stefanie Klug and Jürgen Kriwet (2010). "A new Late Jurassic species of the rare synechodontiform shark, Welcommia (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift 84 (3): 413–419. doi:10.1007/s12542-010-0058-9. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
↑ Alexandre F. Bannikov and Giorgio Carnevale (2010). "Bellwoodilabrus landinii n. gen., n. sp., a new genus and species of labrid fish (Teleostei, Perciformes) from the Eocene of Monte Bolca". Geodiversitas 32 (2): 201–220. doi:10.5252/g2010n2a2.
↑ 16.0 16.1 Matt Friedman, Kenshu Shimada, Larry D. Martin, Michael J. Everhart, Jeff Liston, Anthony Maltese, Michael Triebold (2010). "100-million-year dynasty of giant planktivorous bony fishes in the Mesozoic seas". Science 327 (5968): 990–993. Bibcode:2010Sci...327..990F. doi:10.1126/science.1184743. PMID 20167784. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
↑ Diogo Mayrinck, Paulo M. Brito, Olga Otero (2010). "A new albuliform (Teleostei: Elopomorpha) from the Lower Cretaceous Santana Formation, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil". Cretaceous Research 31 (2): 227–236. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2009.11.002.
↑ Christopher Fielitz and Katia A. González-Rodríguez (2010). "A new species of Enchodus (Aulopiformes: Enchodontidae) from the Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian) of Zimapán, Hidalgo, México". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (5): 1343–1351. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.501438. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
↑ Thomas S. Kelly (2010). "A new chub (Actinopterygii, Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae) from the middle Miocene (early Clarendonian) Aldrich Station Formation, Lyon County, Nevada". Paludicola 7 (4): 137–157.
↑ Shimada, K., Williamson, T. E., and Sealey, P. L. (2010). "A new gigantic pycnodont fish from the Juana Lopez Member of the Upper Cretaceous Mancos Shale of New Mexico, U.S.A". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (2): 598–603. doi:10.1080/02724631003618298. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
↑ Poyoto-Ariza, F. J. (2010). "Polazzodus, gen. nov., a new pycnodont fish from the Late Cretaceous of northeastern Italy". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (3): 650–664. doi:10.1080/02724631003762955. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
↑ Jason D. Pardo; Adam K. Huttenlocker; Bryan J. Small; Mark A. Gorman II (2010). "The cranial morphology of a new genus of lungfish (Osteichthyes: Dipnoi) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of North America". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (5): 1352–1359. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.501430. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
↑ Louis Taverne and Dirk Nolf (2010). "Les Priacanthidae (Teleostei, Perciformes) des Sables de Lede (Éocène moyen, Belgique): ostéologie et otolithes". Bulletin de l’Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 80: 187–243.
↑ Khalloufi, B., Zaragueta-Bagils, R., and Lelievre, H. (2010). "Rhombichthys intocabilis, gen. et sp. nov. (Ellimmichthyiformes, Clupeomorpha, Teleostei), from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Ein Yabrud, Middle East: Anatomial descriptions and phyogenetic implications". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (1): 57–67. doi:10.1080/02724630903409089. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
↑ Murry, A. M., You, H.-L., and Peng, C. (2010). "A new Cretaceous osteoglossomorph fish from Gansu Province, China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (2): 322–332. doi:10.1080/02724631003621961. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
↑ Clement, A. M., and Long, J. A. (2010). "Xeradipterus hatcheri, a new dipnoan from the Late Devonian (Frasnian) Gogo Formation, Western Australia, and other new holodontid material". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (1): 681–695. doi:10.1080/02724631003763482. Retrieved 14 January 2011.