Cretatriacanthidae Explained
Cretatriacanthidae is an extinct family of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish from the Late Cretaceous. It contains two genera, both known from southern Europe.
Placed in the superfamily Plectocretacicoidea alongside several other similar Cretaceous fish genera, they were long considered the earliest members of the extant order Tetraodontiformes.[1] [2] However, a 2024 study found that many of the alleged shared traits were also found among other acanthomorph lineages, and that other traits present within the Plectocretacicoidei are not known from modern Tetraodontiformes. For this reason, it considered them instead as basal members of an expanded Acanthuriformes (containing Tetraodontiformes and Lophiiformes as superorders, among others).[3]
Genera
Notes and References
- Santini . Francesco . Tyler . James C. . 2003 . A phylogeny of the families of fossil and extant tetraodontiform fishes (Acanthomorpha, Tetraodontiformes), Upper Cretaceous to Recent . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . en . 139 . 4 . 565–617 . 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2003.00088.x . 1096-3642.
- Arcila . Dahiana . Alexander Pyron . R. . Tyler . James C. . Ortí . Guillermo . Betancur-R. . Ricardo . 2015 . An evaluation of fossil tip-dating versus node-age calibrations in tetraodontiform fishes (Teleostei: Percomorphaceae) . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 82 . 131–145 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.10.011 . 1055-7903.
- Near . Thomas J. . Thacker . Christine E. . 2024-04-18 . Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii) . Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History . 65 . 1 . 10.3374/014.065.0101 . 0079-032X. free .
- James C. Tyler . Matija Križnar . 2013 . A new genus and species, Slovenitriacanthus saksidai, from southwestern Slovenia, of the Upper Cretaceous basal tetraodontiform fish family Cretatriacanthidae (Plectocretacicoidea) . Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona . 37 . 45–56.
