Paraclupeidae

Paraclupeidae
Live reconstruction of Rhombichthys intocabilis
Temporal occurrence
Lower Cretaceous ( Aptian ) to early Eocene
125.0 to 50.3 million years
Locations
Europe Africa America Southwest Asia
Systematics
Subclass : Neuflosser (Neopterygii) Subclass : Real bony fish (Teleostei) Overcohort : Clupeocephala Cohort : Otomorpha Order : Ellimmichthyformes Family : Paraclupeidae
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
  • Kwangoclupea
  • Scutatospinosa
• Subfamily Thorectichthyinae
  • Thorectichthys
• Subfamily Ellimminae
  • Ellimma
• 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 .