Parechelus

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Parechelus
Temporal range: Ypresian [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Anguilliformes
Family:
†Parechelidae

Casier, 1967
Genus:
†Parechelus

Casier, 1967 [2]
Type species
†Parechelus prangei
Casier, 1967

Parechelus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Ypresian (lower Eocene). [1] The genus was circumscribed by Edgard Casier in 1967 for his description of P. parechelus. [2]

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When Casier circumscribed this genus, he simultaneously defined the family Parechelidae, with Parechelus as its sole genus; and placed it in the order Anguilliformes. [2] The family Parechelidae was considered to be intermediate between Ophichthidae and Muraenidae. [3] Jack Sepkoski, citing Colin Patterson, also classified the genus in Anguilliformes. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Sepkoski, Jr., J. John (2002). "A Compendium of Fossil Marine Animal Genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 310.
  2. 1 2 3 Casier, Edgard (1967). "Poissons de l'Éocène inférieur de Katharinenhof-Fehmarn (Schleswig-Holstein)" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. 43 (25): 8–1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 September 2017; Pl. 1, fig. 1.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  3. ↑ Young, Sally V. T.; Williams, R. J. (2008). "New information on the cranial anatomy of the eel genus Echelus Rafinesque, 1810 (Ophichthidae: Anguilliformes) from the Early Eocene". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 295 (1): 317. Bibcode:2008GSLSP.295..311Y. doi:10.1144/SP295.15. S2CID   128415714.


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