Holophagus Explained

Holophagus is an extinct genus of coelacanth belonging to Latimeriidae.[1] The type species, Holophagus gulo, is known from the Lower Jurassic marine Lias of England.[2] Some authors have considered the genus restricted to the Lias of England.[3]

Taxonomy

The species Holophagus penicillata/penicillatus[4] from the Late Jurassic of Europe is now assigned to the genus Undina. The species Holophagus picenus from the Middle Triassic of Europe has also been reassigned by some authors to Undina.[5] At least some specimens assigned to the genus from the Upper Jurassic of Germany actually belong to the genus Libys.[6] The species Holophagus leridae from the Early Cretaceous El Montesec site in Spain, with other remains tenatively referred from the Early Cretaceous Las Hoyas locality also in Spain, probably do not belong in the genus, but have yet to be reassigned elsewhere.

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Notes and References

  1. Toriño . Pablo . Soto . Matías . Perea . Daniel . 2021-12-02 . A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of coelacanth fishes (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) with comments on the composition of the Mawsoniidae and Latimeriidae: evaluating old and new methodological challenges and constraints . Historical Biology . 33 . 12 . 3423–3443 . 10.1080/08912963.2020.1867982 . 2021HBio...33.3423T . 233942585 . 0891-2963.
  2. Egerton . Philip de M. Grey . December 1868 . On some new fossil fish from the Lias of Lyme Regis . Annals and Magazine of Natural History . en . 2 . 12 . 459 . 10.1080/00222936808695864 . 0374-5481.
  3. Martín-Abad . Hugo . Fregenal- Martínez . Marian . 2021-12-02 . The ecology of the Lower Cretaceous coelacanths from Las Hoyas Konservat- Lagerstätte (Cuenca, Spain): A new insight after the integration of palaeontological and sedimentological data . Spanish Journal of Palaeontology . 36 . 2 . 10.7203/sjp.36.2.21966 . 2660-9568 . free.
  4. Cloutier . Richard . 1991 . Patterns, trends, and rates of evolution within the Actinistia . Environmental Biology of Fishes . 32 . 1–4 . 23–58 . 10.1007/bf00007444 . 1991EnvBF..32...23C . 33275098 . 0378-1909.
  5. Cavin . Lionel . Furrer . Heinz . Obrist . Christian . November 2013 . New coelacanth material from the Middle Triassic of eastern Switzerland, and comments on the taxic diversity of actinistans . Swiss Journal of Geosciences . en . 106 . 2 . 161–177 . 10.1007/s00015-013-0143-7 . 140189669 . 1661-8726. free .
  6. Ferrante . Christophe . Menkveld-Gfeller . Ursula . Cavin . Lionel . 2022-09-22 . The first Jurassic coelacanth from Switzerland . Swiss Journal of Palaeontology . en . 141 . 1 . 15 . 10.1186/s13358-022-00257-z . 1664-2376 . 9499918 . 36164559 . free . 2022SwJP..141...15F .

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