Cornuboniscus
| Cornuboniscus Temporal range:
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| C. budensis fossil | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Family: | †Cornuboniscidae White, 1939 |
| Genus: | †Cornuboniscus White, 1939 |
| Species: | †C. budensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Cornuboniscus budensis White, 1939
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Cornuboniscus is an
age of what is now Cornwall, England.[1][3][4] The genus Cornubonisus was named after the island of Cornubian, and the species name refers to the coastal town of Bude in Cornwall. The type specimen is held in the town's Castle Heritage Centre.[5]
It was initially described as a palaeonisciform, a group of early ray-finned fishes that is now considered to be paraphyletic. On the basis of its paddle-like pectoral fins, it was initially recovered as a descendant of an early group of palaeonisciformes that also gave rise to the Tarrasiiformes and the extant bichirs. A later study instead found it as potentially being sister to the amblypterids and Acrolepis.[6][7][8][9]
Cornuboniscus was a small, sardine-sized fish with an array of razor-sharp teeth likely used to prey on small crustaceans.[10] It inhabited and was likely endemic to Lake Bude, a large, tropical, equatorial lake formed during the Variscan orogeny.[4][5][11]
See also
- Prehistoric fish
- List of prehistoric bony fish
References
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- ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
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- ^ "BBC - A History of the World - Object : Bude fossil fish". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ISSN 0016-7878.