Anguillavus

Anguillavus
Temporal range: Upper Cenomanian[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Infraclass: Teleostei
Superorder: Cyclosquamata (disputed)
Order: Aulopiformes
Superfamily: Cimolichthyoidea
Family: Dercetidae[2]
Genus: Anguillavus
Type species
Anguillavus quadripinnis
Hay, 1903
Species
  • A. quadripinnis Hay, 1903
  • A. bathshebae Hay, 1903
  • A. hackberryensis Martin, 1922

Anguillavus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the upper Cenomanian[1] of Lebanon and the United States. It was originally described as a primitive eel that still had pelvic fins, unlike modern eels. In 1981, the holotype of A. hackberryensis, from Cenomanian-aged marine strata in Kansas, was reexamined, whereupon the genus was then redescribed as a genus of dercertid aulopiform fish.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. 1 2 Lucas, Spencer G., and Robert M. Sullivan, eds. Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior: Bulletin 35. Vol. 35. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 2006.


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