Acestrus
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Acestrus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Istiophoriformes (?) |
Genus: | †Acestrus Woodward, 1901 |
Species: | †A. ornatus
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Binomial name | |
†Acestrus ornatus Woodward, 1901
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Acestrus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the lower Eocene in Europe. It contains one species, A. ornatus from the London Clay, known from a single braincase. It is thought to possibly be closely allied with billfish based on the braincase morphology, although it remains uncertain whether it had the rostrum characteristic of billfishes. Some authorities have suggested blochiid affinities.[1][2][3][4]
The former species "A. elongatus" Casier, 1966 is now thought to be remains assigned to Duplexdens.[3]
See also
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
- ^ a b Monsch, Kenneth A. (2004). "Revision of the scombroid fishes from the Cenozoic of England". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 95 (3–4): 445–489. doi:10.1017/S0263593300001164. ISSN 1755-6929.
- ^ Fierstine, Harry L. (2006-11-01). "Fossil history of billfishes (Xiphioidei)". Bulletin of Marine Science. 79 (3): 433–453.
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