Oniichthys

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Oniichthys
Temporal range: Cenomanian
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Clade: Ginglymodi
Order: Lepisosteiformes
Family: Lepisosteidae
Tribe: Lepisosteini
Genus:† Oniichthys
Cavin & Brito, 2001
Species:
†O. falipoui
Binomial name
†Oniichthys falipoui
Cavin & Brito, 2001
Synonyms
  • Atractosteus falipoui(Cavin & Brito, 2001)

Oniichthys is an extinct genus of gar in the family Lepisosteidae. It contains a single species, O. falipoui, known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Morocco. [1]

It is known from a few very well-preserved, near-complete specimens from the Kem Kem Formation, where it coexisted with the famous Spinosaurus . [2] It closely resembles the modern genus Atractosteus , and is generally placed as its sister genus, a sister to Atractosteus and Lepisosteus , or even as a species within Atractosteus as per Grande (2010), [3] although this latter view has been disputed based on differences in skull morphology. [4] [5]

The genus name references the Ooni, divine Yoruba kings, while the specific epithet honors Christian Falipou, who loaned one of the type specimens. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Cavin, Lionel; Brito, Paulo M. (2001). "A new Lepisosteidae (Actinopterygii, Ginglymodi) from the Cretaceous of the Kem Kem Beds, southern Morocco". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France . 172 (5): 661–670. doi:10.2113/172.5.661.
  2. ↑ Ibrahim, Nizar; Sereno, Paul C.; Varricchio, David J.; Martill, David M.; Dutheil, Didier B.; Unwin, David M.; Baidder, Lahssen; Larsson, Hans C. E.; Zouhri, Samir; Kaoukaya, Abdelhadi (2020-04-21). "Geology and paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of eastern Morocco". ZooKeys (928): 1–216. Bibcode:2020ZooK..928....1I. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.928.47517 . ISSN   1313-2970. PMC   7188693 . PMID   32362741.
  3. ↑ Grande, Lance (2010). "An Empirical Synthetic Pattern Study of Gars (Lepisosteiformes) and Closely Related Species, Based Mostly on Skeletal Anatomy. The Resurrection of Holostei" (PDF). Copeia. 2010 (2A): iii–871. JSTOR   20787269.
  4. ↑ Cavin, Lionel; Boudad, Larbi; Tong, Haiyan; Läng, Emilie; Tabouelle, Jérôme; Vullo, Romain (2015-05-27). "Taxonomic Composition and Trophic Structure of the Continental Bony Fish Assemblage from the Early Late Cretaceous of Southeastern Morocco". PLOS ONE. 10 (5) e0125786. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1025786C. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125786 . ISSN   1932-6203. PMC   4446216 . PMID   26018561.
  5. ↑ Cooper, Samuel L. A.; Gunn, James; Brito, Paulo M.; Zouhri, Samir; Martill, David M. (2023-11-01). "A new fully marine, short-snouted lepisosteid gar from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) of North Africa". Cretaceous Research. 151 105650. Bibcode:2023CrRes.15105650C. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105650 . ISSN   0195-6671. S2CID   259520870.
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