Bathysoma
| Bathysoma Temporal range: Early-Mid Paleocene,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Lampriformes |
| Genus: | †Bathysoma Davis, 1890 |
| Species: | †B. lutkeni
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| †Bathysoma lutkeni Davis, 1890
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Bathysoma is an extinct genus of marine lampriform ray-finned fish from the early-mid Paleocene. It contains a single species, B. lutkeni from Sweden. Its fossils are common in exposures of the Danian København Limestone Formation at Limhamns kalkbrott, one of the largest quarries in northern Europe. A single specimen is also known from an erratic boulder from the Selandian Lellinge Greensand Formation of southern Sweden.[1][2][3]
It is the second oldest lampriform known, after Nardovelifer of Campanian/Maastrichtian Italy.[4] B. lutkeni has a disk-shaped body and an elongated head. It was originally described as a menid bony fish.[1] Later, it was described as being a basal snake mackerel.[5] Eventually, anatomical similarities with the turkmenids were noted, and B. lutkeni is now regarded as an extremely basal lamprid.[4][6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
- ^ "Bulletin Volume 65 – 2017". Dansk Geologisk Forening (in Danish). 2017-02-15. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
- ^ Friedman, Matt; V. Andrews, James; Saad, Hadeel; El-Sayed, Sanaa (2023-06-16). "The Cretaceous–Paleogene transition in spiny-rayed fishes: surveying "Patterson's Gap" in the acanthomorph skeletal record André Dumont medalist lecture 2018". Geologica Belgica. doi:10.20341/gb.2023.002. ISSN 1374-8505.
- ^ a b Bannikov, A. F. (2014-11-01). "A new genus of the family Palaeocentrotidae (Teleostei, Lampridiformes) from the Oligocene of the northern Caucasus and comments on other fossil Veliferoidei". Paleontological Journal. 48 (6): 624–632. doi:10.1134/S0031030114060021. ISSN 1555-6174.
- ^ [1] "A new species of Mene (Perciformes: Menidae) from the Paleocene of South America, with notes on paleoenvironment and a brief review of menid fishes."
- ^ Brownstein, Chase Doran; Near, Thomas J (2023-10-16). "Evolutionary origins of the lampriform pelagic radiation". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad142. ISSN 0024-4082.
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