Eurypholis (meaning "broad scale") is a genus of prehistoric marine aulopiform fish known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Campanian). It contains three species, known from Europe, the Middle East, and east Asia.[1][2]
The following species are known:[1][2][3]
- †E. boissieri Pictet, 1850 (type species) - Cenomanian of Lebanon (Sannine Formation) (=E. sulcidens Pictet, 1850)
- †E. japonicus Uyeno & Minakawa, 1983 - Campanian of Shikoku, Japan (Izumi Group)[4]
- †E. pulchellus (Woodward, 1901) - Cenomanian of England (English Chalk) (=Enchodus pulchellus Woodward, 1901)[5][6]
Potential indeterminate remains are known from the Cenomanian of Uzbekistan and the Maastrichtian of Greece, though a review of the Greek records has found no evidence of these remains belonging to Eurypholis.[2][7]
Of these species, E. boissieri is known from many complete, articulated skeletons, E. pulchellus is known from fragmentary specimens, and E. japonicus is known from a single mandible (closely resembling that of pulchellus) with very large attached teeth.[1][4][5]
References
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- ^ a b c "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2025-03-04.
- ^ Díaz-Cruz, Jesús Alberto; Alvarado-Ortega, Jesús; Carbot-Chanona, Gerardo (2019-04-01). "Dagon avendanoi gen. and sp. nov., an Early Cenomanian Enchodontidae (Aulopiformes) fish from the El Chango quarry, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 91: 272–284. Bibcode:2019JSAES..91..272D. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2019.01.014. ISSN 0895-9811.
- ^ a b Uyeno, Teruya; Minakawa, Tetsuo (1983). "A New Enchodontoid Fish of the Genus Eurypholis from the Cretaceous of Japan" (PDF). Bulletin of the National Science Museum Series C. 9 (2).
- ^ a b Geology, British Museum (Natural History) Department of; Woodward, Arthur Smith (1901). Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History): Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the suborders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini. order of the Trustees.
- ^ Friedman, Matt; Beckett, Hermione T.; Close, Roger A.; Johanson, Zerina (2016). "The English Chalk and London Clay: two remarkable British bony fish Lagerstätten". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 430 (1): 165–200. Bibcode:2016GSLSP.430..165F. doi:10.1144/SP430.18.
- ^ Argyriou, Thodoris; Davesne, Donald (2021-01-20). "Offshore marine actinopterygian assemblages from the Maastrichtian–Paleogene of the Pindos Unit in Eurytania, Greece". PeerJ. 9: e10676. doi:10.7717/peerj.10676. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 7825367. PMID 33552722.
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