Stratodus

Stratodus
Temporal range: Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) - Eocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Aulopiformes
Regan, 1911
Family: †Dercetidae (?)
Genus: †Stratodus
Cope, 1872
Species
  • †S. apicalis (Cope, 1872)
Synonyms
  • †S. oxypogon (Cope, 1877)

Stratodus is a genus of giant prehistoric aulopiform fish found in Cretaceous-aged marine strata of Kansas,[1] Alabama,[2] Morocco,[3] Israel,[4] and Niger,[5] South Dakota,[6] Jordan.[7] It has also been found in the Tamaguélelt Formation of Mali, dating to the Lower Eocene, indicating that Stratodus survived the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.[8] This sleek fish has an upper jaw filled with multiple rows of tiny teeth and was the largest aulopiform, reaching 5 meters in length.[9]

  1. ^ Cope, E. D. (1872). On the families of fishes of the Cretaceous formation of Kansas. OCLC 25267062.
  2. ^ "Correlation of pre-Selma Upper Cretaceous rocks in northeastern Mississippi and northwestern Alabama". 1948. doi:10.3133/oc35. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ Tabaste, N (1963). "Étude de restes de poissons du Crétacé saharien". Mémories de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire.
  4. ^ Lewy, Z; Milner, A.C.; Patterson, C. (1992). "Remarkably preserved natural endocranial casts of pterosaur and fish from the Late Cretaceous of Israel". GSI Current Research.
  5. ^ Moody, R.T.J.; Sutcliffe, P.J.C. (1991). "The Cretaceous deposits of the Iullemmeden Basin of Niger, central West Africa". Cretaceous Research. 12 (2): 137–157. Bibcode:1991CrRes..12..137M. doi:10.1016/S0195-6671(05)80021-7.
  6. ^ Harrell, Lynn (2008). "A Nearly Complete Specimen of Stratodus apicalis (Teleostei: Dercetidae) from the Upper Niobrara Formation of South Dakota, USA". SVP Abstracts – via Researchgate.
  7. ^ Kaddumi, Hani (2009). Fossils of the Harrana Fauna and the Adjacent Areas. Amman: Publications of the EternalRiver Museum of Natural History.
  8. ^ "Stratigraphy and Paleobiology of the Upper Cretaceous-Lower Paleogene Sediments from the Trans-Saharan Seaway in Mali". MorphoBank datasets. 2019-07-01. doi:10.7934/p2735. S2CID 242354960.
  9. ^ Michaut, Marc (2012). "Stratodontidae, Maastrichtien du Niger, partie 1". HAL Open Science. Archived from the original on 27 May 2022.