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| Caturus Temporal range: Early Jurassic-Cretaceous, | |
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| Fossil specimen of Caturus furcatus from Germany, Upper Jurassic | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Halecomorphi |
| Order: | Amiiformes |
| Family: | †Caturidae |
| Genus: | †Caturus Agassiz, 1843 |
Caturus (from Greek: κατω kato, 'down' and Greek: οὐρά ourá 'tail')[1] is an extinct genus of predatory fishes in the family Caturidae in the order Amiiformes, related to modern bowfin. Fossils of this genus range from 200 to 109 mya. It has been suggested that the genus is non-monophyletic with respect to other caturid genera.[2]
Species[edit]
- Caturus agassizi
- Caturus chaperi
- Caturus chirotes
- Caturus dartoni
- Caturus ferox
- Caturus furcatus
- Caturus heterurus
- Caturus insignis
- Caturus latipennis
- Caturus porteri
- Caturus retrodorsalis
- Caturus stenospondylus
- Caturus stenoura
- Caturus velifer
Distribution[edit]
This genus is present in the Cretaceous of Germany, Japan, Spain, Tunisia, the United Kingdom, from the Jurassic to Cretaceous.
References[edit]
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. doi:10.5194/fr-19-119-2016. hdl:11336/54624. ISSN 2193-0074.
