Plethodidae
| Plethodidae Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Infraclass: | Teleostei |
| Order: | †Tselfatiformes |
| Family: | †Plethodidae Loomis, 1900 |
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Plethodidae is an extinct family of teleost fish that existed during the Late Cretaceous period. Fossils are known from North America, North Africa, and Europe.
Description
Plethodids possessed thin, angelfish-like bodies and often had high dorsal fins which made them distinctive from other types of fish. Their bodies contained cartilage, though the amount varied from one species to another.[2]
Genera
As of 2005, there are seventeen recognized genera in the family Plethodidae:[3]
- Bachea
- Bananogmius
- Dixonanogmius
- Enischorhynchus
- Luxilites
- Martinichthys
- Moorevillia
- Niobrara
- Paranogmius
- Pentanogmius
- Plethodus
- Pseudonogmius
- Pseudothryptodus
- Syntegmodus
- Thryptodus
- Tselfatia
- Zanclites
References
- ↑ GBIF. “Plethodidae – Checklist View.” Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Global Biodiversity Information Facility, 2014.
- ↑ Everhart, Mike (23 Aug 2011). "Plethodids". Oceans of Kansas. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
- ↑ Gayet, Mireille, and Louis Taverne. (2005). "Phylogenetical Relationships and Paleozoogeography of the Marine Cretaceous Tselfatiiformes (Teleostei, Clupeocephala)". Cymbium 29 (1): 65–87.