Nardorex

Last updated

Nardorex
Temporal range: Campanian to Maastrichtian
Nardorex zorzini.jpg
Artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Aulopiformes
Family: Nardorexidae
Genus: Nardorex
Taverne, 2004
Type species
Nardorex zorzini
Taverne, 2004

Nardorex zorzini is an extinct nektonic predatory aulopiform ray-finned fish from Late Cretaceous Italy. [1]

Contents

Description

Nardorex zorzini is a superficially mackerel-like animal whose overall anatomy places it within the order Aulopiformes. However, the details of its osteology make its placement within Aulopiformes problematic.

Distribution

Specimens of N. zorzini are found in Campanian to Maastrichtian-aged marine strata of Nardo, Italy.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aulopiformes</span> Order of fishes

Aulopiformes is a diverse order of marine ray-finned fish consisting of some 15 extant and several prehistoric families with about 45 genera and over 230 species. The common names grinners, lizardfishes and allies, or aulopiforms are sometimes used for this group. The scientific name means "Aulopus-shaped", from Aulopus + the standard fish order suffix "-formes". It ultimately derives from Ancient Greek aulós + Latin forma, the former in reference to the elongated shape of many aulopiforms.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Myctophiformes</span> Order of fishes

The Myctophiformes are an order of ray-finned fishes consisting of two families of deep-sea marine fish, most notably the highly abundant lanternfishes (Myctophidae). The blackchins (Neoscopelidae) contain six species in three genera, while the bulk of the family belongs to the Myctophidae, with over 30 genera and some 252 species.

<i>Enchodus</i> Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes

Enchodus is an extinct genus of aulopiform ray-finned fish related to lancetfish and lizardfish. Species of Enchodus flourished during the Late Cretaceous, and there is some evidence that they may have survived to the Paleocene or Eocene; however, this may just represent reworked Cretaceous material.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nardò Ring</span> Test track in Nardò, Italy

The Nardò Ring, originally known as Pista di prova di Nardò della Fiat when it was built in 1975, is a high speed test track located at more than 23 kilometres (14 mi) north-west of the town of Nardò, Italy, in the southern region of Apulia, in the Province of Lecce. It was acquired by Porsche Engineering in 2012 from its former owners, Prototipo SpA. Porsche now calls the site Nardò Technical Center.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Volkswagen W12</span> Motor vehicle

The Volkswagen W12 was a series of concept cars created by Volkswagen Passenger Cars in 1997.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Giovanni Domenico Nardo</span> Italian naturalist (1802–1877)

Giovanni Domenico Nardo was an Italian naturalist from Venice, although he spent most of his life in Chioggia, home port of the biggest fishing flotilla of the Adriatic. He learned taxidermy and specimen preparation from his uncle, an abbot. He went in a high school in Udine and studied medicine in Padua, where he reorganized the zoological collections. In 1832 he reorganized the invertebrate collection at the Imperial Natural History Museum in Vienna and in 1840 he became Fellow of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, an academy whose aim is "to increase, promulgate, and safeguard the sciences, literature and the arts". Nardo wrote hundreds of scientific publications ranging from medicine and social sciences, philology, technology, physics, but mostly on Venetian and Adriatic zoology. In marine biology, Nardo wrote on algae, marine invertebrates, fishes and sea turtles. A vast collection of his manuscripts and his personal library is preserved in the Natural History Museum of Venice.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ipnopidae</span> Family of fishes

The Ipnopidae are a family of fishes in the order Aulopiformes. They are small, slender fishes, with maximum length ranging from about 10 to 40 cm. They are found in temperate and tropical deep waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.

A.S.D. Giarre Calcio 1946 was an Italian association football club located in Giarre, Sicily. Its colors were yellow and blue.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nardò</span> Comune in Apulia, Italy

Nardò is a town and comune in the southern Italian region of Apulia, in the Province of Lecce.

Velhe is a town and comune in the Italian province of Lecce in the Apulia region of south-east Italy. Veglie is 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of Lecce and 12 kilometres (7 mi) east of the sea, the Gulf of Taranto. It is bounded by the comuni of Campi Salentina, Carmiano, Leverano, Nardò, Novoli and Salice Salentino.

<i>La finta giardiniera</i> Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

La finta giardiniera, K. 196, is an Italian-language opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart wrote it in Munich in January 1775 when he was 18 years old and it received its first performance on 13 January at the Salvator Theater in Munich. There is debate over the authorship of the libretto, written for Anfossi's opera the year before. It is often ascribed to Calzabigi, but some musicologists now attribute it to Giuseppe Petrosellini, though again it is questioned whether it is in the latter's style.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Roman Catholic Diocese of Nardò-Gallipoli</span> Diocese of the Catholic Church in Italy

The Diocese of Nardò-Gallipoli is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in southern Italy. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lecce.

<i>Cimolichthys</i> Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes

Cimolichthys is an extinct genus of large predatory marine aulopiform ray-finned fish known worldwide from the Late Cretaceous. It is the only member of the family Cimolichthyidae.

<i>Apateodus</i> Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes

Apateodus is a genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish which was described by Woodward in 1901. It was a relative of modern lizardfish and lancetfish in the order Aulopiformes, and one of a number of prominent nektonic aulopiforms of Cretaceous marine ecosystems.

Dussumieriidae is a family of clupeiform fishes popularly called the "round herrings". It is now recognized by FishBase as a family in its own right; it had been considered to be a subfamily of Clupeidae. It contains two extant genera, and some potential fossil genera. Possibly the earliest record of the group is Nardoclupea from the Campanian of Italy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ACD Nardò</span> Italian football club

A.C.D. Nardò is an Italian association football club, based in Nardò, Apulia. It currently plays in Serie D.

Il maresciallo Rocca is an Italian mystery comedy-drama television series.

Lelio Landi was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Nardò (1596–1610).

Tommaso Brancaccio was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Nardò (1669–1677) and Bishop of Avellino e Frigento (1656–1669).

Gracco De Nardo was an Italian footballer who played as a defender. He competed for Italy in the men's football tournament at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

References

  1. Taverne, L. "Les poissons crétacés de Nardò. 19. Nardorex zorzoni gen. et sp. nov.(Teleostei, Aulopiformes, Alepisauroidei)." Bollet. Mus. Civ. Stor. Natu. Ver. Geolo. Paleon. Preist 28 (2004): 29-40.