Ichthyotringidae Explained

Ichthyotringidae is an extinct family of aulopiform fish known from the Early to Late Cretaceous.^[1] It is one of the Enchodontoidei, a diverse group of aulopiforms that were dominant marine fish during the Cretaceous.^[2]

The following genera are known:^{[3] [4]}

• Family †Ichthyotringidae
  • Genus †Apateodus^[5]
  • Genus †Ichthyotringa

The earliest records of ichthyotringids are indeterminate otoliths from the Barremian Kimigahama Formation of Japan.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: PBDB . 2024-01-16 . paleobiodb.org.
2. Silva . Hilda M. A. . Gallo . Valéria . 2011 . Taxonomic review and phylogenetic analysis of Enchodontoidei (Teleostei: Aulopiformes) . Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências . en . 83 . 2 . 483–511 . 10.1590/S0001-37652011000200010 . 21670874 . 0001-3765.
3. Vernygora . Oksana . Murray . Alison M. . Luque . Javier . Ruge . Mary Luz Parra . Fonseca . María Euridice Paramo . 2018-09-26 . A new Cretaceous dercetid fish (Neoteleostei: Aulopiformes) from the Turonian of Colombia . Journal of Systematic Palaeontology . en . 16 . 12 . 1057–1071 . 10.1080/14772019.2017.1391884 . 2018JSPal..16.1057V . 1477-2019.
4. Web site: Chida . Mori . Fall 2022 . A new species of dercetid and the assessment of the phylogeny of the Enchodontoidei (Teleostei: Aulopiformes) . 2023-12-28 . ERA . 10.7939/r3-nqmz-nf15 . en.
5. Fielitz . Christopher . Shimada . Kenshu . 2009-09-12 . A new species of Apateodus (Teleostei: Aulopiformes) from the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk of Western Kansas, U.S.A. . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . en . 29 . 3 . 650–658 . 10.1671/039.029.0308 . 2009JVPal..29..650F . 0272-4634.
6. Miyata . Shinya . Isaji . Shinji . Kashiwagi . Kenji . Asai . Hidehiko . 2024-04-04 . The first record of Lower Cretaceous otoliths from the Kimigahama Formation (Barremian) of the Choshi Group, Chiba Prefecture, Japan . Palaeontologia Electronica . English . 27 . 1 . 1–23 . 10.26879/1318 . 1094-8074. free .