Ceramurus

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Ceramurus
Temporal range: Tithonian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Galkiniidae
Genus: Ceramurus
Egerton, 1845
Species:
C. macrocephalus
Binomial name
Ceramurus macrocephalus
Egerton, 1845

Ceramurus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish from the Late Jurassic. It contains a single species, C. macrocephalus from the Purbeck Group of England. [1] [2]

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It is one of a number of early teleosts that were originally placed in the family Pholidophoridae, prior to major revisions of the group that reclassified many genera out of it. Presently, it is tentatively placed in the family Galkiniidae alongside Galkinia of Russia, although no research has been conducted on it since this reclassification. [3] Some authors have doubted this taxonomy, and have instead proposed affinities with Ichthyokentema . [4]

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References

  1. "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  2. Woodward, Arthur Smith (1895). "III.—A Description of Ceramurus macrocephalus, A small Fossil Fish from the Purbeck Beds of Wiltshire". Geological Magazine. 2 (9): 401–402. doi:10.1017/S0016756800129772. ISSN   1469-5081.
  3. Arratia, Gloria (2013). "Morphology, taxonomy, and phylogeny of Triassic pholidophorid fishes (Actinopterygii, Teleostei)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (sup1): 1–138. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.835642. ISSN   0272-4634.
  4. Taverne, Louis (2011). "Ostéologie et relations phylogénétiques de Steurbautichthys ("Pholidophophorus") aequatorialis gen. nov. (Teleostei, "Pholidophoriformes") du Jurassique moyen de Kisangani, en République Démocratique du Congo". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique - Bulletin van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen. 81: 129–173.