Cyranichthys Explained

Cyranichthys is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish known from the Late Cretaceous of central Africa and western Europe.[1] It was a member of the Dercetidae, a group of elongated aulopiform fish.[2]

It contains three species:

Previously, this genus was thought to be represented by a single species known from the Cenomanian of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which was previously classified in Dercetis but placed in its own genus in 1987. However, fossils of the later-described C. jagti confirmed the persistence of the species up to the end of the Cretaceous in Europe. A second Congolese species was later reclassified into this genus as well.

The living animal would have had a gar-like or saury-like appearance, although its closest living relatives are lancetfish and lizardfish.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: PBDB Taxon . 2024-07-26 . paleobiodb.org.
  2. Silva . Hilda . Gallo, Valeria . 2011 . Taxonomic review and phylogenetic analysis of Enchodontoidei (Teleostei: Aulopiformes) . Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences . 83 . 2 . 483–511 . 10.1590/S0001-37652011000200010 . 21670874.
  3. Chida . Mori . Brinkman . Donald B. . Murray . Alison M. . 2023-10-01 . A large, new dercetid fish (Teleostei: Aulopiformes) from the Campanian Bearpaw Formation of Alberta, Canada . Cretaceous Research . 150 . 105579 . 10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105579 . 0195-6671.
  4. Taverne . Louis . Goolaerts . Stijn . 2015-01-01 . The dercetid fishes (Teleostei, Aulopiformes) from the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of Belgium and The Netherlands . Geologica Belgica . en . 1374-8505.

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