Dactylopogon Explained

Dactylopogon is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Cretaceous.[1] It contains a single species, D. grandis from the Campanian of the Ahlen Formation of Germany. It was previously considered a myctophiform, but more recent studies have found it to be an elopomorph.[2] [3] [4] A second species, D. parvulus from the Cenomanian-aged Sannine Formation in Lebanon has also sometimes been placed in this genus.

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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 Taxon . 2024-07-28 . paleobiodb.org.
  3. Dietze . Kathrin . 2004-07-09 . Description of the Late Cretaceous teleost Dactylopogon grandis von der Marck (Westphalia, Germany) . Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen . en . 181–194 . 10.1127/njgpa/232/2004/181.
  4. Dietze . Kathrin . 2009 . Morphology and phylogenetic relationships of certain neoteleostean fishes from the Upper Cretaceous of Sendenhorst, Germany . Cretaceous Research . 30 . 3 . 559–574 . 10.1016/j.cretres.2008.11.001 . 0195-6671.

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