Cretazeus Explained

Cretazeus is an extinct genus of marine zeiform fish from the Late Cretaceous.[1] It contains a single species, Cretazeus rinaldii from the late Campanian or early Maastrichtian age of Nardò, Italy. It is the oldest known zeiform fish, and is alternatively considered the only member of the family Cretazeidae or the most basal member of the family Parazenidae.[2] [3] [4]

Uniquely, despite its age, Cretazeus is considered a derived zeiform nested within the order's crown group, as the sister to the Parazenidae; many other lineages of both extant and fossil zeiforms are more basal than Cretazeus, despite only appearing later in the geological record. This suggests that several lineages of zeiforms were present during the Late Cretaceous and survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction, with several surviving to the present day, despite this not being preserved in the fossil record.[5] [6] [7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: PBDB Taxon . 2024-06-22 . paleobiodb.org.
  2. James C. Tyler, Bruce O 'Toole & Richard Winterbottom . 2003 . Phylogeny of the Genera and Families of Zeiform Fishes, with Comments on Their Relationships with Tetraodontiforms and Caproids . . 618 . 618 . 10088/5182 . 1–110 . 10.5479/si.00810282.618.
  3. Tyler . James C. . Santini . Francesco . 2005 . A phylogeny of the fossil and extant zeiform‐like fishes, Upper Cretaceous to Recent, with comments on the putative zeomorph clade (Acanthomorpha) . Zoologica Scripta . en . 34 . 2 . 157–175 . 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00180.x . 0300-3256.
  4. Laan . Richard van der . 2018-10-11 . Family-group names of fossil fishes . European Journal of Taxonomy . en . 466 . 10.5852/ejt.2018.466 . 2118-9773.
  5. Grande . Terry C. . Borden . W. Calvin . Wilson . Mark V. H. . Scarpitta . Lindsay . 2018 . Phylogenetic Relationships among Fishes in the Order Zeiformes Based on Molecular and Morphological Data . Copeia . en . 106 . 1 . 20–48 . 10.1643/CG-17-594 . 0045-8511.
  6. Davesne . Donald . Carnevale . Giorgio . Friedman . Matt . 2017 . Johanson . Zerina . Bajaichthys elegans from the Eocene of Bolca (Italy) and the overlooked morphological diversity of Zeiformes (Teleostei, Acanthomorpha) . Palaeontology . en . 60 . 2 . 255–268 . 10.1111/pala.12280 . 0031-0239. 2027.42/136341 . free .
  7. 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 .

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