Casierius

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Casierius
Temporal range: Early Albian [1]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Albuliformes
Family: Phyllodontidae
Genus: Casierius
Estes, 1969
Species:
C. heckeli
Binomial name
Casierius heckeli
Estes, 1969

Casierius is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous epoch. [1] It was a relative of the modern bonefish in the extinct family Phyllodontidae, although some authorities consider it either a true albulid (making it even more closely related to bonefish) or a very early eel. [2] [3] [4] [5] It contains a single species, C. heckeli, known from the Glen Rose Formation near Hood County, Texas. [6]

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