Aramichthys

Aramichthys Temporal range: Middle Eocene [1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Scombriformes
Family:	Scombridae
Genus:	† Aramichthys Signeux, 1959
Species:	†A. dammeseki
Binomial name
†Aramichthys dammeseki Signeux, 1959

Aramichthys ("Aram fish") is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine scombrid fish that lived during the middle division of the Eocene epoch. ^{[2] [1] [3]} It contains a single species, A. dammeseki ("of Damascus") from Syria. Its remains were recovered from a chalk-marl quarry in the vicinity of Dummar. ^{[2] [4] [5]}

References

1. 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. Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France); naturelle (France), Muséum national d'histoire (1959). Notes et mémoires sur le Moyen-Orient. Vol. t.7 (1959). Paris: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.
3. "Scombridae". www.mv.helsinki.fi. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
4. Zouhri, Samir; Khalloufi, Bouziane; Bourdon, Estelle; Broin, France De Lapparent De; Rage, Jean-Claude; M'haïdrat, Leila; Gingerich, Philip D.; Elboudali, Najia (2018). "Marine vertebrate fauna from the late Eocene Samlat Formation of Ad-Dakhla, southwestern Morocco" . Geological Magazine. 155 (7): 1596–1620. doi:10.1017/S0016756817000759. ISSN   0016-7568.
5. Zouhri, Samir; Gingerich, Philip D.; Khalloufi, Bouziane; Bourdon, Estelle; Adnet, Sylvain; Jouve, Stéphane; Elboudali, Najia; Amane, Ayoub; Rage, Jean-Claude; Tabuce, Rodolphe; Broin, France De Lapparent De (2021). "Middle Eocene vertebrate fauna from the Aridal Formation, Sabkha of Gueran, southwestern Morocco". Geodiversitas. 43 (5): 121–150. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a5. ISSN   1280-9659.