Archaeozeus is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish from the Ypresian epoch Fur Formation of Denmark. It contains a single species, A. skamolensis, and is the only member of the family Archaeozeidae.[1][2][3] It is considered the most basal member of the order Zeiformes.[4][5]
| Archaeozeus Temporal range: Ypresian,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Zeiformes |
| Family: | †Archaeozeidae Tyler & Santini, 2005 |
| Genus: | †Archaeozeus Bonde & Tyler in Tyler et al., 2001 |
| Species: | †A. skamolensis
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| †Archaeozeus skamolensis Bonde & Tyler in Tyler et al., 2001
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See also
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- Protozeus – a genus of extinct fish from the same formation
References
edit- ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-25.
- ^ Davesne, Donald; Carnevale, Giorgio; Friedman, Matt (2017). "Bajaichthys elegans from the Eocene of Bolca (Italy) and the overlooked morphological diversity of Zeiformes (Teleostei, Acanthomorpha)". Palaeontology. 60 (2): 255–268. Bibcode:2017Palgy..60..255D. doi:10.1111/pala.12280. hdl:2027.42/136341.
- ^ Matt Friedman (2009). "Ecomorphological selectivity among marine teleost fishes during the end-Cretaceous extinction". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (13): 5218–5223. Bibcode:2009PNAS..106.5218F. doi:10.1073/pnas.0808468106. PMC 2664034. PMID 19276106.
- ^ Tyler, James C.; Santini, Francesco (2005). "A phylogeny of the fossil and extant zeiform‐like fishes, Upper Cretaceous to Recent, with comments on the putative zeomorph clade (Acanthomorpha)". Zoologica Scripta. 34 (2): 157–175. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00180.x. ISSN 0300-3256.
- ^ Near, Thomas J; Thacker, Christine E (18 April 2024). "Phylogenetic classification of living and fossil ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 65. doi:10.3374/014.065.0101.
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