Africentrum

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Africentrum
Temporal range: Late Oligocene to Upper Miocene [1]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Beryciformes
Family: Holocentridae
Subfamily: Myripristinae
Genus:† Africentrum
White and Moy-Thomas, 1941
Species:
†A. melitense
Binomial name
†Africentrum melitense
(Woodward, 1887)
Synonyms
  • Holocentrum melitenseWoodward, 1887

Africentrum is an extinct genus of prehistoric soldierfish that lived during the Late Oligocene to Late Miocene of Europe. It contains a single species, A. melitense, known from the Upper Miocene subepoch of what is now Malta. [2] [1] [3] In addition, indeterminate fossil remains of this genus are known from the Late Oligocene of Poland. [4]

It has been either recovered as the sister genus to Myripristis or in a polytomy with all the other genera in the subfamily. [5] [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. ↑ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  3. ↑ Woodward, A. Smith (1887). "VI.—On a New Species of Holocenturm from the Miocene of Malta; with a List of Fossil Berycidæ hitherto Described" . Geological Magazine. 4 (8): 355–359. Bibcode:1887GeoM....4..355W. doi:10.1017/S0016756800193963. ISSN   0016-7568.
  4. ↑ Kotlarczyk, Janusz; Jerzmańska, Anna; Świdnicka, Ewa; Wiszniowska, Teresa (2006). "A framework of ichthyofaunal ecostratigraphy of the Oligocene-Early Miocene strata of the Polish Outer Carpathian basin". Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae. 76 (1): 1–111.
  5. ↑ Dornburg, Alex; Moore, Jon; Beaulieu, Jeremy M.; Eytan, Ron I.; Near, Thomas J. (2014-12-19). "The impact of shifts in marine biodiversity hotspots on patterns of range evolution: Evidence from the Holocentridae (squirrelfishes and soldierfishes)". Evolution. 69 (1): 146–161. doi:10.1111/evo.12562. ISSN   0014-3820. PMID   25407924.
  6. ↑ Andrews, James V.; Schein, Jason P.; Friedman, Matt (2023). "An earliest Paleocene squirrelfish (Teleostei: Beryciformes: Holocentroidea) and its bearing on the timescale of holocentroid evolution". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 21 (1) 2168571. Bibcode:2023JSPal..2168571A. doi: 10.1080/14772019.2023.2168571 . ISSN   1477-2019.
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