Avitolabrax Explained

Avitolabrax is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine perciform fish that lived during the early part of the Miocene epoch.[1] [2] It has a single known species, A. denticulatus, from the Siramizu Formation of Fukushima, Japan.[3]

Initially described as a "serranid" when that family was thought to be more expansive, later studies suggest that it may be ancestral to the extant genus Lateolabrax, potentially making it the earliest member of the family Lateolabracidae.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Sepkoski . Jack . A compendium of fossil marine animal genera . Bulletins of American Paleontology . 364 . 560 . 2002 . 2009-02-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class . 2011-07-23 .
  2. Web site: PBDB . 2024-03-01 . paleobiodb.org.
  3. 1942 . Avilolabrax denticulatus, a New Serranid Fish from the Early Miocene of the Joban Coal-field, Japan . Journal of the Faculty of Science Tokyo University Sect II Geology . 6 . 137–139 . 0368-2250.
  4. Matschiner . Michael . Musilová . Zuzana . Barth . Julia M. I. . Starostová . Zuzana . Salzburger . Walter . Steel . Mike . Bouckaert . Remco . 2016-08-25 . Bayesian Phylogenetic Estimation of Clade Ages Supports Trans-Atlantic Dispersal of Cichlid Fishes . Systematic Biology . Supplementary Material . en . syw076 . 10.1093/sysbio/syw076 . 28173588 . 1063-5157.

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