Bolcyrus
Appearance
Bolcyrus Temporal range:
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B. bajai from Civico Museo Archeologico, Italy | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Anguilliformes |
Family: | Congridae |
Genus: | †Bolcyrus Blot, 1978 |
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Bolcyrus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine
It contains two species:[2]
- Bolcyrus bajai Blot, 1978 - Late Ypresian of Italy (Monte Bolca)
- Bolcyrus formosissimus (Eastman, 1905) - Late Ypresian of Italy and possibly earlier Ypresian of Virginia, US
See also
- Prehistoric fish
- List of prehistoric bony fish
Bibliography
- Eastman C.R., 1905 - Les types de poissons fossiles du Monte Bolca au Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, fasc. 1, t. 13, mém. 34, p. 31
- Blot J., 1978 - Les apodes fossiles du Monte Bolca, fasc. 1, vol. 3, p. 260
- Rita S. Mehta, Andrea B. Ward, Michael E. Alfaro and Peter C. Wainwright Elongation of the Body in Eels[dead link]
References
- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ a b "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- hdl:10088/25678.