Phyllodus

Phyllodus Temporal range: 68–50  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil vomer
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Albuliformes
Family:	† Phyllodontidae
Genus:	† Phyllodus
Species
Phyllodus bucklandi Phyllodus curvidens Phyllodus elegans Phyllodus hipparionyx Phyllodus marginalis Phyllodus paulkatoi Phyllodus planus Phyllodus polyodus Phyllodus toliapicus

Phyllodus is an extinct genus of bony fish from the Maastrichtian to Middle Miocene. Fossils of the genus have been found in the Maastrichtian to Danian Hell Creek Formation, the Eocene London Clay, the Early eocene Nanjemoy formation. ^{[1] [2]} and the Paleocene of South Carolina. ^[3]

Classification

It was assigned to Actinopteri by Cope (1875); ^[4] to Phyllodontinae by Estes and Hiatt (1978); ^[5] to Labridae by Hay (1902), ^[6] Leriche (1942), ^[7] Rapp (1946) and Thurmond and Jones (1981); ^[8] to Anguilliformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Phyllodontidae by Casier (1946), ^[9] Casier (1966), ^[10] Bryant (1989), ^[11] Weems (1998), ^[12] Weems (1999) ^[13] and Ebersole et al. (2019). ^[14]

See also

• List of prehistoric bony fish genera

References

1. "Phyllodus pharyngeal plates from the Eocene of Virginia". The Fossil Forum. 2019-10-28. Retrieved 2024-11-25.
2. Gildersleeve, Benjamin (1933). "Pharyngeal plates of Phyllodus from the Virginia Eocene". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 23 (8): 380–389. ISSN   0043-0439. JSTOR   24530350.
3. Weems, Robert E. (1998). "Actinopterygian Fish Remains from the Paleocene of South Carolina" . Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 88 (4): 147–164. doi:10.2307/1006672. JSTOR   1006672.
4. Cope, E. D. (1882). Contributions to the history of the vertebrata of the Lower Eocene of Wyoming and New Mexico made during 1881 /. [Philadelphia?]: [publisher not identified]. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.166590.
5. Estes, Richard (1969-06-03). "Studies on Fossil Phyllodont Fishes: Interrelationships and Evolution in the Phyllodontidae (Albuloidei)" . Copeia. 1969 (2): 317–331. doi:10.2307/1442082. ISSN   0045-8511. JSTOR   1442082.
6. Hay, Oliver Perry (1902). Bibliography and catalogue of the fossil vertebrata of North America. Washington: Govt. Print. Off. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.20094.
7. Καρακίτσιος, Βασίλειος (1979). CONTRIBUTION A L'ETUDE GEOLOGIQUE DES HELLENIDES. ETUDE DE LA REGION DE SELLIA (CRETE MOYENNE-OCCIDENTALE, GRECE): LES RELATIONS LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIQUES ET STRUCTURALES ENTRE LA SERIE DES PHYLLADES ET LA SERIE CARBONATEE DE TRIPOLITZA (Thesis). National Documentation Centre (EKT). doi:10.12681/eadd/4638.
8. D. L. D. (1982). "J. T. Thurmond & D. E. Jones 1981. Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama. ix + 244 pp., 88 figs. Alabama: University of Alabama Press. Price £13.50. ISBN 0 8173 0006 6" . Geological Magazine. 119 (2): 222–224. Bibcode:1982GeoM..119..222D. doi:10.1017/s0016756800025978. ISSN   0016-7568.
9. Goetghebuer, Maurice. (1921). Chironomides de Belgique et spécialement de la zone des Flandres. Mémoires du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique. Bruxelles: M. Hayez, imprimeur de l'Académie royale de Belgique. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.52331.
10. Schaeffer, Bobb (1967). "Faune Ichthyologique du London Clay.Edgard Casier" . The Quarterly Review of Biology. 42 (3): 423–424. doi:10.1086/405419. ISSN   0033-5770.
11. Archibald, J. David; Bryant, Laurie J. (1990), Differential Cretaceous/Tertiary extinctions of nonmarine vertebrates; Evidence from northeastern Montana , Geological Society of America Special Papers, vol. 247, Geological Society of America, pp. 549–562, doi:10.1130/spe247-p549, ISBN   0-8137-2247-0 , retrieved 2024-11-25
12. Weems, Robert E. (1998). "Actinopterygian Fish Remains from the Paleocene of South Carolina" . Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 88 (4): 147–164. doi:10.2307/1006672. ISSN   0065-9746. JSTOR   1006672.
13. Sweet, Palmer C. (1974). "Mineral-And Fossil-Collecting Localities in Virginia" . Rocks & Minerals. 49 (9): 507–510. Bibcode:1974RoMin..49..507S. doi:10.1080/00357529.1974.11762283. ISSN   0035-7529.
14. Ebersole, Jun A.; Cicimurri, David J.; Stringer, Gary L. (2019-12-06). "Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths". European Journal of Taxonomy (585). doi:10.5852/ejt.2019.585. ISSN   2118-9773.

Further reading

• Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 215)