Araeosteus
Araeosteus Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Zaproridae |
Genus: | †Araeosteus Jordan & Gilbert, 1920 |
Species: | †A. rothi |
Binomial name | |
†Araeosteus rothi |
Araeosteus is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish, closely related to the modern-day prowfish. It contains a single species, A. rothi which is known from Late Miocene (Tortonian)-aged marine strata in Southern California, primarily the Diatom Beds of Lompoc (Monterey Formation) and the Santa Monica Mountains (Modelo Formation).[1][2]
Etymology
[edit]The generic name is a compound word meaning "slender bone." The specific name honors one Almon Edward Roth of Stanford University.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ David, Lore Rose (1943). Miocene Fishes of Southern California. p. 38.
- ^ California Academy of Sciences (1890). Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco : California Academy of Sciences.
- ^ Jordan, David Starr, Gilbert, James Zaccheus. Fossil fishes of diatom beds of Lompoc, California 1920 [1]