Eothynnus
| Eothynnus Temporal range: | |
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| Restoration of Eothynnus salmoneus as a carangid | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Suborder: | Carangoidei |
| Family: | Carangidae |
| Genus: | †Eothynnus Woodward, 1901 |
| Species: | †E. salmoneus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Eothynnus salmoneus Woodward, 1901 | |
Eothynnus is an extinct species of prehistoric jackfish that lived during the lower Eocene of Europe and eastern North America. It contains a single species, E. salmoneus.[1][2] It is known primarily from some preserved skulls from what is now the Isle of Sheppey (as a part of the London Clay Lagerstatten) in England.[3] A single vertebra is also known from the Nanjemoy Formation of Virginia, US.[4]
It was originally thought to be a tuna or mackerel, hence the generic name translating as "dawn" or "Eocene tuna."[2] Later, it was reappraised to be a jackfish, related to Teratichthys and Eastmanalepes (syn. "Caranx primaevus").[5][6] It is one of the largest fish known from the London Clay.[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 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.
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2025-02-14.
- 1 2 Weems, Robert E. (2021). "ADDITIONS TO THE BONY FISH FAUNA FROM THE EARLY EOCENE NANJEMOY FORMATION OF MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA (U.S.A)". The Mosasaur : The Journal of the Delaware Valley Paleontological Society. XI: 117–152.
- ↑ Monsch, Kenneth A. (2004). "Revision of the scombroid fishes from the Cenozoic of England". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 95 (3–4): 445–489. Bibcode:2004EESTR..95..445M. doi:10.1017/S0263593300001164. ISSN 1755-6929.
- ↑ Bannikov, A. F. (1987). "On the taxonomy, composition and origin of the family Carangidae". Journal of Ichthyology. 27 (1): 1–8.
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