Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes
Cyranorhis is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Serpukhovian age of the Carboniferous period. One species is known, C. bergeraci in the Bear Gulch Limestone what is now Montana, United States.[1][2] It is named after French novelist Cyrano de Bergerac.[3]
Classification
It is a member of the Rhadinichthyidae, a family of basal ray-finned fish that was formerly placed in the now-paraphyletic order Palaeonisciformes.[4] Based on the cladistic analysis by Ren & Xu, Cyranorhis was recovered in a sister group relationship with the Triassic Pteronisculus which may thus represent a late-surviving rhadinichthyid.[5]
References
- ^ a b Schultze, Hans-Peter; Mickle, Kathryn E.; Poplin, Cecile; Hilton, Eric J.; Grande, Lance (2021). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, 8A. Actinopterygii I. Palaeoniscimorpha, Stem Neopterygii, Chondrostei. Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. p. 299. ISBN 978-3-89937-272-4.
- ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-07-27.
- ^ Lund, Richard; Poplin, Cécile (1997-09-04). "The rhadinichthyids (paleoniscoid actinopterygians) from the Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana (USA, Lower Carboniferous)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 17 (3): 466–486. doi:10.1080/02724634.1997.10010996. ISSN 0272-4634.
- ^ Mickle, Kathryn E. (2012-05-31). Unraveling the Systematics of Palaeoniscoid Fishes--Lower Actinopterygians in Need of a Complete Phylogenetic Revision. University of Kansas (dissertation). p. 488.
- ^ Ren, Yi; Xu, Guang-Hui (2021). "A new species of Pteronisculus from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) of Luoping, Yunnan, China, and phylogenetic relationships of early actinopterygian fishes". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 59: 169–199. doi:10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.210518. S2CID 238786196.
