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2015 in fish paleontology

Index 2015 in fish paleontology

This list of fossil fishes described in 2015 is a list of new taxa of jawless vertebrates, placoderms, acanthodians, fossil cartilaginous fishes, bony fishes and other fishes of every kind that have been described during the year 2015, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleontology of fishes that occurred in the year 2015. [1]

197 relations: Acanthodes, Acanthodii, Acanthopterygii, Actinistia, Actinopterygii, Agnatha, Alcântara Formation, Alosa, Amiiformes, Antarctica, Antarctilamna, Antiarchi, Aquia Formation, Armigatus, Arthrodira, Aspidorhynchiformes, Astoria Formation, Aulopiformes, Ballagan Formation, Basking shark, Bearpaw Formation, Bell Canyon Formation, Big Snowy Group, Binomial nomenclature, Bowfin, Burdigalian, Callorhinchus, Campanian, Capitanian, Caproidae, Carboniferous, Carcharhinus, Carcharomodus, Catfish, Catshark, Cavenderichthys, Centracanthus cirrus, Chattian, Chimaera, Chondrichthyes, Chondrostei, Ciderius, Clayton Formation, Clupea, Clupeidae, Clupeiformes, Cobitidae, Cobitis, Coelacanth, Combtooth blenny, ..., Cottus (genus), Cretaceous, Cretolamna, Ctenodus, Cyclothone, Cyprinidae, Cyprinodontiformes, Cyprinus, Cyranichthys, Dalatiidae, Danian, Devonian, Diaphus, Dipnorhynchidae, Duck Creek Formation, Dussumieriidae, Eagle ray, Edaphodon, Elasmobranchii, Emsian, Euphaneropidae, European pilchard, Famennian, Fengping Wang, Ferques Formation, Fish, Fossil, Frasnian, Galeaspida, Gar, Genus, Givetian, Gnathostomata, Gobiiformes, Goby, Gogo Formation, Gogoselachus, Gonostomatidae, Gourami, Groenlandaspis, Guanling Formation, Halecomorphi, Hangenberg event, Heterostraci, Hyrcanogobius bergi, Ichthyodectidae, Ischnacanthiformes, James Ross Island, Janusiscus, Ladinian, Lamnidae, Leptolepis, Lochkovian, Luisiella, Lungfish, Maastrichtian, Megamouth shark, Mojarra, Monte Bolca, Morone, Moronidae, Moythomasia, Namurian, Neogobius, Neoselachii, Norian, Nursallia, Ontogeny, Ophidiiformes, Ophiopsis, Osteichthyes, Otodontidae, Paleontology, Parablennius, Peltopleuridae, Peltopleuriformes, Percidae, Petalichthyida, Pholidophorus, Pietschellus, Placodermi, Planktivore, Platysomus, Poeciliidae, Pomatoschistus, Ponticola, Priabonian, Proterorhinus, Pseudomegachasma, Ptychoceratodus, Ptychodontidae, Pycnodontidae, Pycnodontiformes, Quasipetalichthyidae, Queensland lungfish, Raja (genus), Requiem shark, Rupelian, Sand shark, Sandbian, Sander (genus), Santonian, Sarcopterygii, Saurichthyiformes, Saurichthys, Schizorhiza, Sciaenidae, Scombridae, Scyliorhinus, Selenosteidae, Serenichthys, Serpukhovian, Serravallian, Siluridae, Silurus, Sinamia, Sinamiidae, Skate (fish), Snow Hill Island Formation, Sparidae, Species, Suining Formation, Symphodus, Tallahatta Formation, Taxon, Teleost, Tetraodontidae, Tetrapod, Thanetian, Thoracopteridae, Tolypelepidida, Toolebuc Formation, Torpedinidae, Torpedo (genus), Tortonian, Tournaisian, Transparent goby, Turrisaspis, Vaca Muerta, Valencia (genus), Viséan, Wenlock (Silurian), White croaker, Whiteiidae, Wrasse, Xishancun Formation, Ypresian. Expand index (147 more) »

Acanthodes

Acanthodes (meaning spiny base or thorny base) is an extinct genus of spiny shark.

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Acanthodii

Acanthodii or acanthodians (sometimes called spiny sharks) is a paraphyletic class of extinct teleostome fish, sharing features with both bony fish and cartilaginous fish.

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Acanthopterygii

Acanthopterygii (meaning "spiny finned one") is a superorder of bony fishes in the class Actinopterygii.

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Actinistia

Actinistia is a subclass of mostly fossil lobe-finned fishes.

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Actinopterygii

Actinopterygii, or the ray-finned fishes, constitute a class or subclass of the bony fishes.

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Agnatha

Agnatha (Greek, "no jaws") is a superclass of jawless fish in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, consisting of both present (cyclostomes) and extinct (conodonts and ostracoderms) species.

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Alcântara Formation

The Alcântara Formation is a geological formation in northeastern Brazil whose strata date back to the Upper Cretaceous.

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Alosa

Alosa is a genus of fish, the river herrings, in the family Clupeidae.

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Amiiformes

The Amiiformes order of fish has only one extant species, the bowfin (Amia calva).

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent.

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Antarctilamna

Antarctilamna is an extinct genus of shark, that lived during the Devonian period.

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Antiarchi

Antiarchi ("Opposite anus") is an order of heavily armored placoderms.

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Aquia Formation

The Aquia Formation is a geologic sandstone formation that extends from the upper Chesapeake Bay to the James River near Hopewell, Virginia.

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Armigatus

Armigatus is an extinct genus of clupeomorph fishes belonging to the order Ellimmichthyiformes.

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Arthrodira

Arthrodira is an order of extinct armoured, jawed fishes of the class Placodermi that flourished in the Devonian period before their sudden extinction, surviving for about 50 million years and penetrating most marine ecological niches.

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Aspidorhynchiformes

Aspidorhynchiformes (meaning "shield snout form") is an extinct order of prehistoric ray-finned fish that was described by Bleeker in 1859.

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Astoria Formation

The Astoria Formation is a geologic formation in Oregon (state).

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Aulopiformes

Aulopiformes is a diverse order of marine ray-finned fish consisting of some 15 extant and several prehistoric families with about 45 genera and over 230 species.

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Ballagan Formation

The Ballagan Formation is a geologic formation in Scotland.

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Basking shark

The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the second-largest living shark, after the whale shark, and one of three plankton-eating shark species, along with the whale shark and megamouth shark.

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Bearpaw Formation

The Bearpaw Formation, also called the Bearpaw Shale, is a geologic formation of Late Cretaceous (Campanian) age.

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Bell Canyon Formation

The Bell Canyon Formation is a Permian geologic unit in the western United States.

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Big Snowy Group

The Big Snowy Group is a stratigraphical unit of Chesterian age in the Williston Basin.

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Binomial nomenclature

Binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system") also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.

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Bowfin

Bowfin (Amia calva) are basal bony fishes related to gars in the infraclass Holostei.

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Burdigalian

The Burdigalian is, in the geologic timescale, an age or stage in the early Miocene.

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Callorhinchus

Callorhinchus, the plough-nose chimaeras or elephantfish, are the only living genus in the family Callorhinchidae (sometimes spelled Callorhynchidae).

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Campanian

The Campanian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous epoch (or, in chronostratigraphy: the fifth of six stages in the Upper Cretaceous series).

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Capitanian

In the geologic timescale, the Capitanian is an age or stage of the Permian.

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Caproidae

Boarfishes are a small family, Caproidae, of marine fishes comprising two genera and 12 species.

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Carboniferous

The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, Mya.

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Carcharhinus

Carcharhinus is the type genus of the family Carcharhinidae, the requiem sharks.

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Carcharomodus

Carcharomodus is an extinct genus of lamnid shark.

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Catfish

Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish.

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Catshark

Catsharks are ground sharks of the family Scyliorhinidae.

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Cavenderichthys

Cavenderichthys talbragarensis is a species of prehistoric bony fish found in the Talbragar River beds.

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Centracanthus cirrus

Centracanthus cirrus, also known as the curled picarel, is a species of picarel native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

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Chattian

The Chattian is, in the geologic timescale, the younger of two ages or upper of two stages of the Oligocene epoch/series.

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Chimaera

Chimaeras the order Chimaeriformes, known informally as ghost sharks, rat fish (not to be confused with the rattails), spookfish (not to be confused with the true spookfish of the family Opisthoproctidae), or rabbit fish (not to be confused with the family Siganidae).

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Chondrichthyes

Chondrichthyes (from Greek χονδρ- chondr- 'cartilage', ἰχθύς ichthys 'fish') is a class that contains the cartilaginous fishes: they are jawed vertebrates with paired fins, paired nares, scales, a heart with its chambers in series, and skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone.

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Chondrostei

Chondrostei are primarily cartilaginous fish showing some degree of ossification.

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Ciderius

Ciderius is an extinct genus of jawless fish in the super class Anaspidomorphi.

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Clayton Formation

The Clayton Formation is a geologic formation in Illinois.

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Clupea

Clupea is genus of planktivorous bony fish belonging to the family Clupeidae, commonly known as herrings.

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Clupeidae

Clupeidae is a family of ray-finned fishes, comprising, for instance, the herrings, shads, sardines, ilish, and menhadens.

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Clupeiformes

Clupeiformes is the order of ray-finned fish that includes the herring family, Clupeidae, and the anchovy family, Engraulidae.

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Cobitidae

Cobitidae, also known as the True loaches, is a family of Old World freshwater fish.

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Cobitis

Cobitis is a genus of fish in the family Cobitidae.

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Coelacanth

The coelacanths constitute a now rare order of fish that includes two extant species in the genus Latimeria: the West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) primarily found near the Comoro Islands off the east coast of Africa and the Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis).

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Combtooth blenny

Combtooth blennies are blennioids; perciform marine fish of the family Blenniidae.

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Cottus (genus)

Cottus is a genus of the sculpin family Cottidae.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.

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Cretolamna

Cretolamna is a genus of extinct mackerel shark that belonged to the family Otodontidae.

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Ctenodus

Ctenodus is an extinct genus of prehistoric lungfish which lived during the Carboniferous period.

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Cyclothone

Cyclothone is a genus of bioluminescent bristlemouths which typically grow to around 3 inches (though some species are known to be larger).

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Cyprinidae

The Cyprinidae are the family of freshwater fishes, collectively called cyprinids, that includes the carps, the true minnows, and their relatives (for example, the barbs and barbels).

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Cyprinodontiformes

Cyprinodontiformes is an order of ray-finned fish, comprising mostly small, freshwater fish.

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Cyprinus

Cyprinus is the genus of typical carps in family Cyprinidae.

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Cyranichthys

Cyranichthys is an extinct marine aulopiform fish genus from Cenomanian-aged marine strata of what is now the Kipala formation in the Congo, Belgium and The Netherlands.

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Dalatiidae

The Dalatiidae are the family of kitefin sharks of the order Squaliformes (the term "kitefin shark" also refers specifically to the species Dalatias licha).

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Danian

The Danian is the oldest age or lowest stage of the Paleocene epoch or series, the Paleogene period or system and the Cenozoic era or erathem.

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Devonian

The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic, spanning 60 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Carboniferous, Mya.

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Diaphus

Diaphus is a genus of lanternfishes.

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Dipnorhynchidae

Dipnorhynchidae is an extinct family of prehistoric lungfishes which lived during the Devonian period.

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Duck Creek Formation

The Duck Creek Formation is a geologic formation in Texas.

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Dussumieriidae

Dussumieriidae is a family of clupeiform fishes popularly called the "round herrings".

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Eagle ray

The eagle rays are a group of cartilaginous fishes in the family Myliobatidae, consisting mostly of large species living in the open ocean rather than on the sea bottom.

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Edaphodon

Edaphodon was a prehistoric chimaeriform fish genus belonging to the family Callorhinchidae (sometimes assigned to Edaphodontidae).

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Elasmobranchii

Elasmobranchii is a subclass of Chondrichthyes or cartilaginous fish, including the sharks (superorder Selachii) and the rays, skates, and sawfish (superorder Batoidea).

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Emsian

The Emsian is one of three faunal stages in the Early Devonian epoch.

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Euphaneropidae

Euphaneropidae is an extinct family of prehistoric jawless fish in the extinct order Euphanerida.

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European pilchard

The European pilchard (Sardina pilchardus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the monotypic genus, Sardina.

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Famennian

The Famennian is the latter of two faunal stages in the Late Devonian epoch.

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Fengping Wang

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Ferques Formation

The Ferques Formation is a geologic formation in France.

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Fish

Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Frasnian

The Frasnian is one of two faunal stages in the Late Devonian period.

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Galeaspida

Galeaspida (from Latin, "Helmet shields") is an extinct taxon of jawless marine and freshwater fish.

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Gar

Gars (or garpike) are members of the Lepisosteiformes (or Semionotiformes), an ancient holosteian order of ray-finned fish; fossils from this order are known from the Late Jurassic onwards.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Givetian

The Givetian is one of two faunal stages in the Middle Devonian period.

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Gnathostomata

Gnathostomata are the jawed vertebrates.

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Gobiiformes

The Gobiiformes are an order of fish that includes the gobies.

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Goby

Gobies are fishes of the family Gobiidae, one of the largest fish families comprising more than 2,000 species in more than 200 genera.

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Gogo Formation

The Gogo Formation in the Kimberley region of Western Australia is a Lagerstätte that exhibits exceptional preservation of a Devonian reef community.

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Gogoselachus

Gogoselachus ("shark from the Gogo formation") is an extinct genus of cartilaginous fish known from the late Devonian of Australia.

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Gonostomatidae

The Gonostomatidae are a family of mesopelagic marine fish, commonly named bristlemouths, lightfishes, or anglemouths.

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Gourami

Gouramis, or gouramies, are a group of freshwater anabantiform fishes that comprise the family Osphronemidae.

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Groenlandaspis

Groenlandaspis ("Greenland Shield") is an extinct genus of arthrodire from the Late Devonian.

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Guanling Formation

The Guanling Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in southwestern China.

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Halecomorphi

Halecomorphi is a taxon of bony fishes in the clade Neopterygii.

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Hangenberg event

The Hangenberg event is a bioevent that occurred at the end of the Famennian epoch (late Devonian) associated with the Late Devonian extinction (roughly 358.9 ± 0.4 million years ago); it was an anoxic event marked by a black shale.

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Heterostraci

Heterostraci ("Different scales") is an extinct subclass of pteraspidomorph jawless vertebrate that lived primarily in marine and estuary environments.

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Hyrcanogobius bergi

Hyrcanogobius bergi, the Volga dwarf goby, is a species of goby endemic to the Caspian Sea where it occurs in fresh, brackish and marine waters along the coast.

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Ichthyodectidae

The family Ichthyodectidae (literally "fish-biters") is an extinct family of marine actinopterygian fish.

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Ischnacanthiformes

Ischanacanthiformes is an order of Acanthodii or spiny sharks found in Canada, Ukraine and United Kingdom.

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James Ross Island

James Ross Island is a large island off the southeast side and near the northeastern extremity of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Prince Gustav Channel.

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Janusiscus

Janusiscus schultzei was a Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrate) dating from the Early Devonian period in Siberia, approximately 415 million years ago.

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Ladinian

The Ladinian is a stage and age in the Middle Triassic series or epoch.

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Lamnidae

The Lamnidae are the family of mackerel or white sharks. They are large, fast-swimming sharks, found in oceans worldwide.

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Leptolepis

Leptolepis ("delicate scale") is an extinct genus of teleost fish that lived in freshwater and marine environments from the Middle Triassic period until the Early Cretaceous.

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Lochkovian

The Lochkovian is one of three faunal stages in the Early Devonian epoch.

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Luisiella

Luisiella is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Kimmeridgian stage of the Late Jurassic epoch.

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Lungfish

Lungfish are freshwater rhipidistian fish belonging to the subclass Dipnoi.

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Maastrichtian

The Maastrichtian is, in the ICS geologic timescale, the latest age (uppermost stage) of the Late Cretaceous epoch or Upper Cretaceous series, the Cretaceous period or system, and of the Mesozoic era or erathem.

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Megamouth shark

The megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) is a species of deepwater shark.

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Mojarra

The mojarras are a family, Gerreidae, of fish in the order Perciformes.

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Monte Bolca

Monte Bolca is a lagerstätte near Verona, Italy that was one of the first fossil sites with high quality preservation known to Europeans, and is still an important source of fossils from the Eocene.

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Morone

Morone is a genus of temperate basses native to the Atlantic coast of North America and the freshwater systems of the southwestern and eastern United States.

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Moronidae

The Moronidae are a family of perciform fishes, commonly called the temperate basses, consisting of at least six freshwater, brackish water, and marine species.

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Moythomasia

Moythomasia is an extinct genus of early ray-finned fish from the Devonian period of Europe and Australia.

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Namurian

The Namurian is a stage in the regional stratigraphy of northwest Europe with an age between roughly 326 and 313 Ma (million years ago).

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Neogobius

Neogobius is a genus of goby native to Black Sea and the Caspian Sea basins.

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Neoselachii

Neoselachii are a grouping of cartilaginous fishes in subclass Elasmobranchii of class Chondrichthyes.

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Norian

The Norian is a division of the Triassic geological period.

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Nursallia

Nursallia is an extinct genus of pycnodontid ray-finned fishes, ranging from the Late Cretaceous period until its extinction during the Eocene.

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Ontogeny

Ontogeny (also ontogenesis or morphogenesis) is the origination and development of an organism, usually from the time of fertilization of the egg to the organism's mature form—although the term can be used to refer to the study of the entirety of an organism's lifespan.

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Ophidiiformes

Ophidiiformes is an order of ray-finned fish that includes the cusk-eels (family Ophidiidae), pearlfishes (family Carapidae), brotulas (family Bythitidae), and others.

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Ophiopsis

Ophiopsis is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.

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Osteichthyes

Osteichthyes, popularly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse taxonomic group of fish that have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue, as opposed to cartilage.

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Otodontidae

Otodontidae is an extinct family of sharks, belonging to the order Lamniformes.

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Paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

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Parablennius

Parablennius is a diverse genus of combtooth blennies found in the Atlantic, western Pacific, and Indian oceans.

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Peltopleuridae

Peltopleuridae were an extinct family of prehistoric bony fish.

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Peltopleuriformes

Peltopleuriformes were an extinct order of prehistoric bony fish.

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Percidae

The Percidae are a family of perciform fish found in fresh and brackish waters of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Petalichthyida

Petalichthyida is an extinct order of small, flattened placoderm fish.

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Pholidophorus

Pholidophorus is an extinct genus of teleost fish from the Triassic and Jurassic periods of Africa, Europe, and South America.

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Pietschellus

Pietschellus is an extinct genus of enigmatic bony fish which existed in northern Italy during the early Eocene epoch (Ypresian age).

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Placodermi

Placodermi (from the Greek πλάξ.

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Planktivore

A planktivore is an aquatic organism that feeds on planktonic food, including zooplankton and phytoplankton.

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Platysomus

Platysomus is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived in the Carboniferous and Permian periods.

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Poeciliidae

The Poeciliidae are a family of freshwater fishes of the order Cyprinodontiformes, the tooth-carps, and include well-known live-bearing aquarium fish, such as the guppy, molly, platy, and swordtail.

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Pomatoschistus

Pomatoschistus is a genus of gobies native to fresh, brackish and marine waters of Europe, the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

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Ponticola

Ponticola is a genus of gobies native mostly to fresh waters of the Black Sea - Caspian Sea region in Eurasia.

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Priabonian

The Priabonian is, in the ICS's geologic timescale, the latest age or the upper stage of the Eocene epoch or series.

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Proterorhinus

Proterorhinus is a genus of fishes, known as the tubenose gobies.

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Pseudomegachasma

Pseudomegachasma ("false megamouth") is an extinct genus of filter-feeding shark that was closely related to the modern sand tiger shark.

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Ptychoceratodus

Ptychoceratodus is an extinct genus of prehistoric sarcopterygians or lobe-finned fish.

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Ptychodontidae

Ptychodontidae is a family of extinct hybodontiform sharks which lived from the Cretaceous to the Paleogene.

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Pycnodontidae

Pycnodontidae is an extinct family of ray-finned fishes, ranging from the Triassic period until the Eocene.

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Pycnodontiformes

Pycnodontiformes is an extinct order of bony fish.

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Quasipetalichthyidae

Quasipetalichthyidae is a family of primitive petalichthyid placoderms from Givetian-aged marine strata of Yunnan, China, and possibly Vietnam.

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Queensland lungfish

The Queensland lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri), also known as the Australian lungfish, Burnett salmon and barramunda, is a surviving member of the family Neoceratodontidae and order Ceratodontiformes.

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Raja (genus)

Raja is a genus of skates in the family Rajidae containing 16 species.

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Requiem shark

Requiem sharks are sharks of the family Carcharhinidae in the order Carcharhiniformes, containing migratory, live-bearing sharks of warm seas (sometimes of brackish or fresh water) such as the spinner shark, the blacknose shark, the blacktip shark, the grey reef shark, and the blacktip reef shark.

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Rupelian

The Rupelian is, in the geologic timescale, the older of two ages or the lower of two stages of the Oligocene epoch/series.

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Sand shark

Sand sharks, also known as sand tiger sharks, grey nurse sharks or ragged tooth sharks, are mackerel sharks of the family Odontaspididae.

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Sandbian

The Sandbian is the first stage of the Upper Ordovician.

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Sander (genus)

Sander (formerly known as Stizostedion) is a genus of fish in the Percidae (perch) family.

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Santonian

The Santonian is an age in the geologic timescale or a chronostratigraphic stage.

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Sarcopterygii

The Sarcopterygii or lobe-finned fish (from Greek σαρξ sarx, flesh, and πτερυξ pteryx, fin) – sometimes considered synonymous with Crossopterygii ("fringe-finned fish", from Greek κροσσός krossos, fringe) – constitute a clade (traditionally a class or subclass) of the bony fish, though a strict cladistic view includes the terrestrial vertebrates.

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Saurichthyiformes

Saurichthyiformes is a group of ray-finned fish which existed in China, Europe and North America, during the late Permian to early Jurassic periods.

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Saurichthys

Saurichthys ('lizard fish') is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish from the Triassic period.

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Schizorhiza

Schizorhiza is a fossil genus of cartilaginous fish, containing a single accepted species Schizorhiza stromeri.

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Sciaenidae

The Sciaenidae are a family of fish commonly called drums or croakers in reference to the repetitive throbbing or drumming sounds they make.

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Scombridae

The Scombridae family of the mackerels, tunas, and bonitos includes many of the most important and familiar food fishes.

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Scyliorhinus

Scylorhinus is a genus of catsharks in the family Scyliorhinidae.

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Selenosteidae

Selenosteidae is a family of small to large-sized arthrodire placoderms from the Late Devonian.

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Serenichthys

Serenichthys kowiensis is a fossil species of coelacanth described in 2015 from near Grahamstown in South Africa.

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Serpukhovian

The Serpukhovian is in the ICS geologic timescale the uppermost stage or youngest age of the Mississippian, the lower subsystem of the Carboniferous.

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Serravallian

The Serravallian is in the geologic timescale an age or a stage in the middle Miocene epoch/series, that spans the time between 13.65 ± 0.05 Ma and 11.608 ± 0.005 Ma (million years ago).

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Siluridae

Siluridae is the nominate family of catfishes in the order Siluriformes.

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Silurus

Silurus is a genus of catfishes native to Europe and Asia.

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Sinamia

Sinamia is an extinct genus of bowfin fish which existed in China during the early Cretaceous period.

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Sinamiidae

Sinamiidae is an extinct family of ray-finned fish from Northeasthern Thailand.

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Skate (fish)

Skates are cartilaginous fish belonging to the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea of rays.

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Snow Hill Island Formation

The Snow Hill Island Formation is a Late Cretaceous geologic formation found on James Ross Island, Antarctica.

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Sparidae

The Sparidae are a family of fish in the order Perciformes, commonly called sea breams and porgies.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Suining Formation

The Suining Formation is a geological formation in China whose strata date back to the Late Jurassic.

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Symphodus

Symphodus is a genus of wrasses native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

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Tallahatta Formation

The Tallahatta Formation is a geologic formation found on the surface in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi.

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Taxon

In biology, a taxon (plural taxa; back-formation from taxonomy) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

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Teleost

The teleosts or Teleostei (Greek: teleios, "complete" + osteon, "bone") are by far the largest infraclass in the class Actinopterygii, the ray-finned fishes, and make up 96% of all extant species of fish.

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Tetraodontidae

The Tetraodontidae are a family of primarily marine and estuarine fish of the order Tetraodontiformes.

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Tetrapod

The superclass Tetrapoda (from Greek: τετρα- "four" and πούς "foot") contains the four-limbed vertebrates known as tetrapods; it includes living and extinct amphibians, reptiles (including dinosaurs, and its subgroup birds) and mammals (including primates, and all hominid subgroups including humans), as well as earlier extinct groups.

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Thanetian

The Thanetian is, in the ICS Geologic timescale, the latest age or uppermost stratigraphic stage of the Paleocene Epoch or series.

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Thoracopteridae

Thoracopteridae is an extinct family of prehistoric bony fish; classified with the order Peltopleuriformes.

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Tolypelepidida

Tolypelepidida is an extinct order of heterostracan vertebrates.

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Toolebuc Formation

The Toolebuc Formation is a geological formation that extends from Queensland across South Australia and the Northern Territory in Australia, whose strata date back to the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous.

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Torpedinidae

The family Torpedinidae contains 22 species of electric rays or torpedoes, flat cartilaginous fishes that produce electricity as a defense and feeding mechanism.

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Torpedo (genus)

Torpedo is a genus of rays, commonly known as electric rays, torpedo rays, or torpedoes.

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Tortonian

The Tortonian is in the geologic timescale an age or stage of the late Miocene that spans the time between 11.608 ± 0.005 Ma and 7.246 ± 0.005 Ma (million years ago).

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Tournaisian

The Tournaisian is in the ICS geologic timescale the lowest stage or oldest age of the Mississippian, the oldest subsystem of the Carboniferous.

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Transparent goby

Aphia minuta, the transparent goby, is a species of the goby native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean where it can be found from Trondheim, Norway to Morocco.

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Turrisaspis

Turrisaspis elektor is an extinct species of groenlandaspid arthrodire placoderm.

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Vaca Muerta

Vaca Muerta (in Spanish Dead Cow) is a geologic formation of Jurassic and Cretaceous age, located at Neuquén Basin in Argentina.

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Valencia (genus)

Valencia is the only genus in the family Valenciidae.

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Viséan

The Visean, Viséan or Visian is an age in the ICS geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column.

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Wenlock (Silurian)

The Wenlock (sometimes referred to as the Wenlockian) is the second series of the Silurian.

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White croaker

White croaker (Genyonemus lineatus) is a species of croaker occurring in the Eastern Pacific.

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Whiteiidae

Whiteiidae is an extinct family of prehistoric coelacanth fishes which lived during the Triassic period.

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Wrasse

The wrasses are a family, Labridae, of marine fish, many of which are brightly colored.

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Xishancun Formation

The Xishancun Formation is a geological formation located at Qujing, Yunnan, South China.

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Ypresian

In the geologic timescale the Ypresian is the oldest age or lowest stratigraphic stage of the Eocene.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_in_fish_paleontology

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