Caturus

Caturus
Temporal range: Early Jurassic-Early Cretaceous, 200–140 Ma
Fossil specimen of C. furcatus from Germany, Upper Jurassic
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Clade: Halecomorphi
Order: Amiiformes
Family: †Caturidae
Genus: †Caturus
Agassiz, 1843
Type species
†Pachycormus furcatus
Agassiz, 1833
Species

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Synonyms
  • †Uraeus Agassiz, 1832

Caturus (from Greek: κατω kato, 'down' and Greek: οὐρά ourá 'tail')[1][2] is an extinct genus of predatory marine fishes in the family Caturidae in the order Amiiformes, related to modern bowfin. It has been suggested that the genus is non-monophyletic with respect to other caturid genera.[3]

Fossils of this genus range from 200 to 140 mya (Early Jurassic to Early Cretaceous).[4][5]

  1. ^ Roberts, George (1839). An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and language of geology. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. p. 27. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  2. ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-05-02.
  3. ^ Gouiric-Cavalli, Soledad (2016-06-09). "A new Late Jurassic halecomorph fish from the marine Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina, southwestern Gondwana". Fossil Record. 19 (2): 119–129. Bibcode:2016FossR..19..119G. doi:10.5194/fr-19-119-2016. hdl:11336/54624. ISSN 2193-0074.
  4. ^ López-Arbarello, Adriana; Ebert, Martin (2023). "Taxonomic status of the caturid genera (Halecomorphi, Caturidae) and their Late Jurassic species". Royal Society Open Science. 10 (1). Bibcode:2023RSOS...1021318L. doi:10.1098/rsos.221318. ISSN 2054-5703. PMC 9832298. PMID 36686548.
  5. ^ Bogan, Sergio; Taverne, Louis; Federico, Agnolini (2013). "First Triassic and oldest record of a South American amiiform fish: Caturus sp. from the Los Menucos Group (lower Upper Triassic), Río Negro province, Argentina". Geologica Belgica. 16 (3): 191–195.