Armigatus
Extinct genus of fishes
Armigatus clupeomorph fishes belonging to the order Ellimmichthyiformes .[ 1] Cretaceous (Albian to Campanian , about 103-72 million years ago); their fossil remains have been found in Mexico, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, suggesting the genus ranged across the Tethys Sea .[ 2]
Etymology
The Latin generic epithet Armigatus , means bearer of armor . The specific epithet brevissimus signifies "shortest, smallest".
Description
Armigatus has an osteoglossid -like tooth patch, a large foramen in the anterior ceratohyal and a series of subtriangular dorsal scutes , giving rise to their scientific name.[ 3]
Species
†A. brevissimus (Blainville , 1818) ,[ 4] type species , from the Cenomanian of Lebanon (Hakel and Hajula in the Sannine Formation ), Italy (Sicily ), Slovenia (Komen ), and Germany (Hesseltal Formation ).[ 5]
†A. elatus (Costa , 1850) from the Albian Pietraroja Plattenkalk of Italy (=Histiurus elatus Costa, 1850 )[ 6]
†A. namourensis Forey et al. , 2003 [ 4] [ 7]
†A. alticorpus Forey et al. , 2003 [ 4] [ 7]
†A. oligodentatus Vernygora and Murray, 2016 [ 8] Turonian Akrabou Formation of Morocco .
†A. dalmaticus Murray et al., 2016 from the Campanian deposits of Dalmatia , Croatia .[ 9]
†A. carrenoae Alvarado-Ortega et al. , 2020 from the Albian Tlayua Formation of Mexico.[ 2]
†A. felixi Than-Marchese et al. , 2022 from the Albian Tlayua Formation of Mexico.[ 4]
†A. plinii Marramà & Carnevale, 2023 from the Albian Pietraroja Plattenkalk of Italy[ 6]
References
^ "PBDB Taxon" . paleobiodb.org . Retrieved 2024-05-19 .^ a b Alvarado-Ortega, Jesús; Than-Marchese, Bruno Andrés; Melgarejo-Damián, María del Pilar (2020). "On the Albian occurrence of Armigatus (Teleostei, Clupeomorpha) in America, a new species from the Tlayúa Lagerstätte, Mexico" . Palaeontologia Electronica . doi :10.26879/1107 ISSN 1935-3952 . ^ Grande, L., 1982: A revision of the fossil genus †Diplomystus, with comments on the interrelationships of clupeomorph fishes. American Museum Novitiates 2728: 1–34.
^ a b c d Than-Marchese, Bruno Andrés; Alvarado-Ortega, Jesús (2022-10-01). "Armigatus felixi sp. nov. An Albian double armored herring (Clupeomorpha, Ellimmichthyiformes) from the Tlayúa lagerstätte, Mexico" . Journal of South American Earth Sciences . 118 : 103905. Bibcode :2022JSAES.11803905T . doi :10.1016/j.jsames.2022.103905 . ISSN 0895-9811 . ^ Amalfitano, Jacopo; Giusberti, Luca; Fornaciari, Eliana; Carnevale, Giorgio (2020-04-03). "UPPER CENOMANIAN FISHES FROM THE BONARELLI LEVEL (OAE2) OF NORTHEASTERN ITALY" . Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia . 126 (2). doi :10.13130/2039-4942/13224 . ISSN 2039-4942 . ^ a b Marramà, Giuseppe; Carnevale, Giorgio (2023). "Double-armoured herrings (Clupeomorpha: Ellimmichthyiformes) from the Lower Cretaceous of Pietraroja (Southern Italy)" . Journal of Systematic Palaeontology . 21 (1). doi :10.1080/14772019.2023.2181109 . ISSN 1477-2019 . ^ a b Forey, Peter L.; Yi, Lu; Patterson, Colin; Davies, Cliff E. (2003-01). "Fossil fishes from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Namoura, Lebanon ". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 1 (4): 227–330. doi:10.1017/s147720190300107x. ISSN 1477-2019.
^ VERNYGORA, OKSANA; MURRAY, ALISON M. (January 2016). "A New Species of Armigatus (Clupeomorpha, Ellimmichthyiformes) from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco, and ITS Phylogenetic Relationships" . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 36 (1): e1031342. doi :10.1080/02724634.2015.1031342 . ISSN 0272-4634 . JSTOR 24740222 . S2CID 86230107 . ^ Murray, Alison M.; Vernygora, Oksana; Japundžić, Sanja; Radovčić, Jakov; Wilson, Mark V. H.; Bardack, David; Grande, Terry (2016-11-01). "Relationships of the species of Armigatus (Clupeomorpha, Ellimmichthyiformes) and the description of a new species from the Cretaceous of Dalmatia, Croatia" . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 36 (6): e1226851. doi :10.1080/02724634.2017.1226851 . ISSN 0272-4634 . S2CID 89072541 .
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