Melvius
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Halecomorphi |
| Order: | Amiiformes |
| Family: | Amiidae |
| Subfamily: | †Vidalamiinae |
| Tribe: | †Vidalamiini |
| Genus: | †Melvius Bryant, 1987 |
| Type species | |
| †Melvius thomasi Bryant, 1987
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Melvius is a genus of vidalamiin amiid fish from the Late Cretaceous.[1] The type species, Melvius thomasi, was described by Bryant in 1987.[2] A second species Melvius chauliodous, was named and described by Hall and Wolburg in 1989,[3] and it is now considered to be one of the index taxa of the Kirtlandian land-vertebrate age.[4]
References
- ^ K. M. Cantalice, A. M. Martinez-Melo, and V. A. Romero-Mayén. 2019. The paleoichthyofauna housed in the Colección Nacional de Paleontología of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Zoosystematics and Evolution 95(2):429-452
- ^ L. J. Bryant. 1987. A new genus and species of Amiidae (Holostei; Osteichthyes) from the Late Cretaceous of North America, with comments on the phylogeny of the Amiidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 7(4):349-361
- ^ L. Grande and W. E. Bemis. 1998. A comprehensive phylogenetic study of amiid fishes (Amiidae) based on comparative skeletal anatomy. An empirical search for interconnected patterns of natural history. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 4. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(1, suppl.):1-690
- ^ Sullivan, R.M.; Jasinski, S.E.; Lucas, S.G. (2011). Sullivan, R.M.; et al. (eds.). "Preliminary Observations on a Skull of the Amiid Fish Melvius, from the Upper Cretaceous Kirtland Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico" (PDF). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin. 53: 475–483. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-29.
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