Paraclupeidae
Paraclupeidae | ||||||||||||
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Live reconstruction of Rhombichthys intocabilis |
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Temporal occurrence | ||||||||||||
Lower Cretaceous ( Aptian ) to early Eocene | ||||||||||||
125.0 to 50.3 million years | ||||||||||||
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Scientific name of the order | ||||||||||||
Ellimmichthyformes | ||||||||||||
Grande , 1982 | ||||||||||||
Scientific name of the family | ||||||||||||
Paraclupeidae | ||||||||||||
Chang & Chou , 1977 |
The Paraclupeidae (= Ellimmichthyidae ) are an extinct family of fish that is related to the herring-like (Clupeiformes) and was found in the sea and fresh waters from the Lower Cretaceous to the Middle Eocene .
features
The Paraclupeidae sometimes had a very deep body with a pronounced abdominal region, similar to the recent hatchet fish . Her lateral line organ was complete, the pelvic fins stood in front of the dorsal fin . The fish had two supramaxillary bones in the upper jaw (maxilla). The teeth on the parasphenoid were similar to those on Osteoglossum .
Systematics
There are nine known genera , which are divided into five subfamilies:
- Subfamily Scutatospinosinae
- Subfamily Thorectichthyinae
- Subfamily Ellimminae
- Subfamily Ellimmichthyinae
- Ellimmichthys Jordan, 1919
- Eoellimmichthys Marramà, Bannikov, Kriwet & Carnevale, 2019
- Rhombichthys
- Subfamily Paraclupeinae
- Paraclupea
- Tycheroichthys
- Triplomystus Forey, et al. 2003
literature
- Joseph S. Nelson , Terry C. Grande, Mark VH Wilson: Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, 2016, ISBN 978-1118342336 .
- Karl Albert Frickhinger: Fossils Atlas Fish , Mergus-Verlag, Melle, 1999, ISBN 3-88244-018-X .