Charitopsis (fish)

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Charitopsis
Temporal range: Late Cenomanian [1]
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Charitopsis spinosus Museo Scienze Naturali di Faenza
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gonorynchiformes
Family: Gonorynchidae
Genus: Charitopsis
Gayet, 1993
Species:
C. spinosus
Binomial name
Charitopsis spinosus
Gayet, 1993

Charitopsis is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the lower Cenomanian. It was a relative of modern beaked salmons. It contains a single species, C. spinosus from the Sannine Formation of Lebanon. It is possibly related to the sympatric gonorynchid Charitosomus , although some anatomical traits are more similar to the Cenozoic gonorynchids ( Notogoneus and Gonorynchus itself). [1] [2] [3]

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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 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. "Charitopsis". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
  3. Fara, Emmanuel; Gayet, Mireille; Taverne, Louis (2010), "The Fossil Record of Gonorynchiformes", Gonorynchiformes and Ostariophysan Relationships, CRC Press, pp. 173–226, doi:10.1201/b10194-6, ISBN   978-0-429-06156-1 , retrieved 2024-05-09