Belonostomus
Belonostomus Temporal range:
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Belonostomus kochii | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | †Aspidorhynchiformes |
Family: | †Aspidorhynchidae |
Genus: | †Belonostomus Agassiz, 1834 |
Synonyms | |
Diphyodus |
Belonostomus (from Greek: βέλος belos, 'dart' and Greek: στόμα stóma 'mouth')[1] is a genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that was described by Louis Agassiz in 1844. It is a member of the order Aspidorhynchiformes, a group of fish known for their distinctive elongated rostrums. The oldest known species are from the Upper Jurassic of Germany, with the youngest known species from the late Paleocene. Fossils of Belonostmus have been found worldwide in marine deposits. It likely consumed plankton or other small fish.[2]
Belonostomus species include:
- Belonostomus kochii
- Belonostomus acutus
- Belonostomus carinatus
- Belonostomus crassirostris
- Belonostomus indicus
- Belonostomus longirostris
- Belonostomus münsteri
- Belonostomus tenuirostris
References[]
- ^ Roberts, George (1839). An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and language of geology. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. p. 19. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
- ^ Van Vranken, Nathan; Fielitz, Christopher; Ebersole, Jun (2019). "New occurrences of Belonostomus (Teleostomorpha: Aspidorhynchidae) from the Late Cretaceous of the North American Gulf Coastal Plain, USA". Palaeontologia Electronica. 22 (3): 1–11. doi:10.26879/983. ISSN 1935-3952. S2CID 204264731.
- Belonostomus, Paleobiology Database
Categories:
- Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
- Cretaceous fish of Africa
- Cretaceous fish of Asia
- Fossils of Uzbekistan
- Bissekty Formation
- Prehistoric fish of Australia
- Prehistoric fish of South America
- Cretaceous animals of South America
- Cretaceous Brazil
- Fossils of Brazil
- Crato Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 1834
- Taxa named by Louis Agassiz
- Prehistoric bony fish stubs
- Cretaceous fish stubs