Calamopleurus

<i>Calamopleurus</i>

Calamopleurus

Extinct genus of fishes

Calamopleurus is an prehistoric genus of marine holostean ray-finned fish from the Early Cretaceous of South America and northern Africa. It was a relative of the modern bowfin, with both belonging to the family Amiidae.[1]

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It contains three species:[2][3]

It is thought to be the sister genus to Maliamia, the last surviving member of the vidalamiines, which is the largely marine amiid group that also contained Calamopleurus. Both are placed in the tribe Calamopleurini.[1]

Fossil of Calamopleurus eating Rhacolepis

References

  1. [1]
    "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  2. [2]
    Peter L. Forey & Lance Grande (1998). "An African twin to the Brazilian Calamopleurus (Actinopterygii: Amiidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 123 (2): 179–195. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb01299.x.
  3. [3]
    Brito, Paulo M.; Nava, William R.; Martinelli, Agustin G. (2017-09-01). "A New Fossil Amiidae (Holostei: Halecomorphi) from the Upper Cretaceous Adamantina Formation, Southeastern Brazil, with comments on western Gondwana amiids". Cretaceous Research. 77: 39–43. Bibcode:2017CrRes..77...39B. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.04.018. ISSN 0195-6671.
  4. [4]
    Benyoucef, Madani; Läng, Emilie; Cavin, Lionel; Mebarki, Kaddour; Adaci, Mohammed; Bensalah, Mustapha (2015). "Overabundance of piscivorous dinosaurs (Theropoda: Spinosauridae) in the mid-Cretaceous of North Africa: The Algerian dilemma". Cretaceous Research. 55: 44–55. Bibcode:2015CrRes..55...44B. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.02.002. ISSN 0195-6671.



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