Beckius

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Beckius
Temporal range: Early Oligocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Salmonidae
Subfamily: Coregoninae
Genus: Beckius
David, 1946
Species:
B. plicatus
Binomial name
Beckius plicatus
David, 1946

Beckius is an extinct genus of marine whitefish known from the Early Oligocene [1] of California. It contains a single species, B. plicatus, known only from a single fossilized scale from the Tumey Formation, a lens of the Kreyenhagen Shale. The scale was found to resemble those of Coregonus , although significantly different in many ways, leading to its classification as a new genus of Coregoninae. [2] [3] [4]

The genus name was later reused in 1992 for a scarab beetle from New Guinea, until it was discovered to be preoccupied; the beetle was thus renamed Debeckius . [5]

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References

  1. E. R. Atwill (2) (1935). "Oligocene Tumey Formation of California". AAPG Bulletin. 19. doi:10.1306/3D932D52-16B1-11D7-8645000102C1865D. ISSN   0149-1423.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-04-19.
  3. David, Lorre R. (1946). "Some Typical Upper Eogene Fish Scales from California". Contributions to Paleontology. IV.
  4. "Mineralienatlas - Fossilienatlas". www.mineralienatlas.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-04-19.
  5. Allsopp, Peter G (2022-07-01). "Replacement names for Beckius Dechambre, 1992 and Syrictes Prell, 1936, and validation of Neoryctes Arrow, 1908 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)". Zootaxa. 5165 (2): 294–300. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5165.2.9. ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   36095466.