Lissoberyx
| Lissoberyx Temporal range:
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| Fossil of Lissoberyx species from Lebanon | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Trachichthyiformes |
| Family: | Trachichthyidae |
| Genus: | †Lissoberyx Patterson, 1967 |
Lissoberyx is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish belongon to the family Trachichthyidae. Lissoberyx is a trachichthyid, but it shows more resemblance to the holocentrids than any other trachichthyid. [2]
Fossil record
[edit]These fishes lived during the Cenomanian age (from 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago).[1][3]
Description
[edit]Lissoberyx can reach a body length of about 4 cm (1.6 in). These small deep-bodied fishes have 23 vertebrae, five spines in the dorsal fin, while anal fin has four spines, less than ten soft rays in each. Scales are thin, no ventral ridge scales.
Lissoberyx dayi is the type species of the genus Lissoberyx.[2]
However, one of the specimens used by C. Patterson in his description of L. dayi must considered a representative of the type species (C. minimus) of a new genus, Cryptoberyx.[4]
See also
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References
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- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ a b Colin Patterson New Cretaceous Berycoid fishes from Lebanon in Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology., p. 73
- ^ Paleobiology Database
- ^ Mireille Gaudant Implications taxonomiques du caractere composite de l'hypodigme du genre Lissoberyx
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