Avitolabrax

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Avitolabrax
Temporal range: Early Miocene[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Acropomatiformes
Family: Lateolabracidae
Genus: Avitolabrax
Takai, 1942
Species:
A. denticulatus
Binomial name
Avitolabrax denticulatus
Takai, 1942

Avitolabrax is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish that lived during the early part of the Miocene epoch.[1][2] It has a single known species, A. denticulatus, from the Siramizu Formation of Fukushima, Japan.[3]

Initially described as a "serranid" when that family was thought to be more expansive, later studies suggest that it may be ancestral to the extant genus Lateolabrax, potentially making it the earliest member of the family Lateolabracidae.[3][4]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
  3. ^ a b "Avilolabrax denticulatus, a New Serranid Fish from the Early Miocene of the Joban Coal-field, Japan". Journal of the Faculty of Science Tokyo University Sect II Geology. 6: 137–139. 1942. ISSN 0368-2250.
  4. ^ Matschiner, Michael; Musilová, Zuzana; Barth, Julia M. I.; Starostová, Zuzana; Salzburger, Walter; Steel, Mike; Bouckaert, Remco (2016-08-25). "Bayesian Phylogenetic Estimation of Clade Ages Supports Trans-Atlantic Dispersal of Cichlid Fishes" (PDF). Systematic Biology (Supplementary Material): syw076. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syw076. ISSN 1063-5157. PMID 28173588.