Amyzon (fish)
| Amyzon Temporal range:
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| 10 cm (3.9 in) A. aggregatum fossil | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cypriniformes |
| Family: | Catostomidae |
| Subfamily: | Ictiobinae |
| Genus: | †Amyzon Cope, 1872 |
| Type species | |
| †Amyzon mentale Cope, 1872
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Amyzon is an extinct genus belonging to the sucker
Early Oligocene sites in Nevada USA.[1] One Middle Eocene species is known from the Xiawanpu Formation of China. The Ypresian species A. brevipinne of the Allenby Formation was redescribed in 2021 and moved to a separate monotypic genus Wilsonium.[3]
Species
There are six valid species included in Amyzon with up to nine species having been described.[4]
- A. aggregatum Wilson, 1977 Early Eocene (Ypresian), Horsefly Beds, Horsefly, B.C.[2]: 32–40, 41
- A. commune (Cope, 1874) late Eocene Florissant Formation, Colorado (junior synonyms A. fusiforme Cope, 1875 & A. pandatum Cope, 1874 )
- A. gosiutensis Grande, Eastman, & Cavender, 1982 Eocene Green River Formation[5]
- A. hunanensis (Cheng, 1962) Middle Eocene, Xiawanpu Formation, China[6][7]
- A. kishenehnicum Liu, Wilson, & Murray, 2016, Eocene, Kishenehn Formation, Montana[5]
- A. mentale Cope, 1872 Oligocene, Osino Oil Shales, Nevada[1]
- Moved from Amyzon
- A. brevipinne Cope, 1894 moved to Wilsonium brevipinne (Cope, 1894), Early Eocene, Allenby Formation, Tulameen River, British Columbia[3][8]
References
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- ^ a b c Cope, ED (1872). "On the Tertiary coal and fossils of Osino, Nevada". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 12: 478–481. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
- ^ a b Wilson, MVH (1977). "Middle Eocene freshwater fishes from British Columbia". Life Sciences Contributions, Royal Ontario Museum. 113. Royal Ontario Museum: 1–66. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
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- S2CID 127768517.
- ^ S2CID 88581209.
- S2CID 87613292.
- ^ Zhang, J. Y.; Wilson, M. V. H. (2017). "First complete fossil Scleropages (Osteoglossomorpha)". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 55 (1): 1–23. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
- ISBN 0774805781.