2011 in paleoichthyology

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Fishes

=Newly named jawless vertebrates=

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Althaspis tarloi{{cite journal |author=Voichyshyn, V. |year=2011 |title=The Early Devonian armoured agnathans of Podolia, Ukraine |journal=Palaeontologia Polonica |volume=66 |pages=1–211 |doi=10.4202/pp.2011.66_001|doi-access=free }}

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sp.

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Valid

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  • Voichyshyn

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Early Devonian

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Dniester Formation

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  • {{Flag|Ukraine}}

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A heterostracan

Djurinaspis secunda

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sp.

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Valid

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  • Voichyshyn

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Early Devonian

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Tyver Formation

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  • {{Flag|Ukraine}}

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A heterostracan

Lechriaspis{{cite journal |author1=David K. Elliott |author2=Michael A. Petriello |year=2011 |title=New poraspids (Agnatha, Heterostraci) from the Early Devonian of the western United States |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=518–530 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2011.557113 |s2cid=130564395 }}

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Gen. et sp.

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Valid

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  • Elliott
  • Petriello

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Early Devonian

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Water Canyon Formation

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  • {{Flag|USA}}

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A heterostracan

Palanasaspis

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Gen. et sp.

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Valid

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  • Voichyshyn

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Early Devonian

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Dniester Formation

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  • {{Flag|Ukraine}}

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A heterostracan

Podolaspis danieli

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sp.

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Valid

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  • Voichyshyn

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Early Devonian

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Dniester Formation

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  • {{Flag|Ukraine}}

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A heterostracan

Poraspis thomasi

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Species

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Valid

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  • Elliott
  • Petriello

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Early Devonian

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Lost Burro Formation

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  • {{Flag|USA}}

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A heterostracan

Semipodolaspis

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Gen. et sp.

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Valid

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  • Voichyshyn

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Early Devonian

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Tyver Formation

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  • {{Flag|Ukraine}}

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A heterostracan

Shuyu{{cite journal |author=Zhikun Gai |author2=Philip C. J. Donoghue |author3=Min Zhu |author4=Philippe Janvier |author5=Marco Stampanoni |name-list-style=amp |title=Fossil jawless fish from China foreshadows early jawed vertebrate anatomy |journal=Nature |volume=476 |date=18 August 2011 |pages=324–327 |doi=10.1038/nature10276 |issue=7360|bibcode = 2011Natur.476..324G |pmid=21850106|s2cid=20526220 }} [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v476/n7360/extref/nature10276-s1.pdf Electronic supplementary material]

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Gen. et comb.

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Valid

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  • Gai
  • Donoghue
  • et al.Gai, Donoghue, Zhu, Janvier, Stampanoni.

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Late Telychian/Early Wenlock

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Maoshan Formation

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  • {{Flag|China}}

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The basalmost known eugaleaspidiform galeaspid.

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Zenaspis kasymyri

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sp.

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Valid

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  • Voichyshyn

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Early Devonian

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Dniester Formation

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  • {{Flag|Ukraine}}

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A osteostracan

=Newly named acanthodian=

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Nerepisacanthus{{cite journal |author=Carole J. Burrow |year=2011 |title=A partial articulated acanthodian from the Silurian of New Brunswick, Canada |journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=48 |issue=9 |pages=1329–1341 |doi=10.1139/e11-023 |bibcode = 2011CaJES..48.1329B }}

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Gen. et sp.

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Valid

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  • Burrow

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?Telychian/Ludlow

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Cunningham Creek Formation

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  • {{Flag|Canada}}

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An acritolepid ischnacanthiform.

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=Newly named placoderms=

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Arabosteus{{cite journal |author1=Sébastien Olive |author2=Daniel Goujet |author3=Hervé Lelièvre |author4=Dominique Janjou |title=A new Placoderm fish (Acanthothoraci) from the Early Devonian Jauf Formation (Saudi Arabia) |journal=Geodiversitas |year=2011 |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=393–409 |doi=10.5252/g2011n3a1 |s2cid=131051350 |url=http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/handle/2268/91788 }}

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Valid

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  • Olive et al.

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Early Devonian

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Jauf Formation

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{{Flag|Saudi Arabia}}

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A member of Acanthothoraci. The type species is Arabosteus variabilis.

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Draconichthys elegans{{cite journal|last=RÜCKLIN|first=MARTIN|title=First selenosteid placoderms from the eastern Anti-Atlas of Morocco; osteology, phylogeny and palaeogeographical implications|journal=Palaeontology|date=January 14, 2011|volume=56|issue=1|pages=25–62|doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.01026.x|s2cid=129280865 }}

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Valid

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  • Rücklin

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Frasnian

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Anti-Atlas Mountains

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{{Flag|Morocco}}

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A piscivorous selenosteid arthrodire

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=Newly named cartilaginous fishes=

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Cederstroemia ziaensis{{cite journal |author1=Jim Bourdon |author2=Keith Wright |author3=Spencer G. Lucas |author4=Justin A. Spielmann |author5=Randy Pence |year=2011 |title=Selachians from the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) Hosta Tongue of the Point Lookout Sandstone, Central New Mexico |journal=New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin |volume=52 |pages=1–54}}

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Species

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Valid

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  • Bourdon et al.

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Late Cretaceous (Santonian)

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Point Lookout Sandstone

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  • {{Flag|United States}}

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A carpet shark, a species of Cederstroemia.

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Dwardius sudindicus{{cite journal |author1=Charlie J. Underwood |author2=Anjali Goswami |author3=G. V. R. Prasad |author4=Omkar Verma |author5=John J. Flynn |year=2011 |title=Marine vertebrates from the 'middle' Cretaceous (early Cenomanian) of South India |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=539–552 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2011.574518|s2cid=129106454 }}

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Species

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Valid

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  • Underwood
  • Goswami
  • et al.Underwood, Goswami Prasad, Verma and Flynn

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Early Cenomanian

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Karai Formation

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  • {{Flag|India}}

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An otodontid.

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Eorhinoptera{{cite journal |author1=Gerard R. Case |author2=Todd D. Cook |author3=Mark V.H. Wilson |year=2011 |title=A new genus and species of fossil myliobatoid ray from the Fishburne Formation (lower Eocene/Ypresian) of Berkeley County, South Carolina, USA |journal=Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology |volume=23 |issue=2–3 |pages=139–144 |doi=10.1080/08912963.2010.497607|s2cid=128464567 }}

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Gen. et sp. nov

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Valid

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  • Case, Cook & Wilson

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Early Eocene (Ypresian)

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Fishburne Formation

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  • {{Flag|United States}}

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A stingray related to the genus Rhinoptera. The type species is Eorhinoptera grabdai.

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Ertychius{{cite journal |author1=Michał Ginter |author2=Vachik Hairapetian |author3=Araik Grigoryan |year=2011 |title=Chondrichthyan microfossils from the Famennian and Tournaisian of Armenia |journal=Acta Geologica Polonica |volume=61 |issue=2 |pages=153–173 |url=http://www.agp.org.pl/table/pdf/61-2/ginter.pdf}}

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Gen. et sp. nov

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Valid

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  • Ginter, Hairapetian & Grigoryan

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Devonian (early Famennian)

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  • {{Flag|Armenia}}

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A ctenacanthiform. The type species is Ertychius intermedius.

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Fayolia sharovi{{cite journal |author1=Jan Fischer |author2=Sebastian Voigt |author3=Jörg W. Schneider |author4=Michael Buchwitz |author5=Silke Voigt |year=2011 |title=A selachian freshwater fauna from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan and its implication for Mesozoic shark nurseries |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=31 |issue=5 |pages=937–953 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2011.601729|s2cid=85753690 }}

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Species

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Valid

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  • Fischer
  • Voigt
  • et al.Fischer, Voigt, Schneider, Buchwitz and Voigt

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Middle/Late Triassic

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Madygen Formation

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  • {{Flag|Kyrgyzstan}}

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Egg capsules of a probable xenacanthid.

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Gladioserratus

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Gen. et comb. et sp. nov

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Valid

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  • Underwood
  • Goswami
  • et al.

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Cretaceous (Hauterivian) to Paleocene (Danian) or possibly even early Eocene{{cite journal |author1=Jan S. Adolfssen |author2=David J. Ward |year=2015 |title=Neoselachians from the Danian (Early Paleocene) of Denmark |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=313–338 |doi=10.4202/app.2012.0123 |s2cid=128949365 |url=http://curis.ku.dk/ws/files/154526274/Adolfssen_2015_Neoselachians_from_the_Danian.pdf }}

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  • {{Flag|Australia}}
  • {{Flag|Denmark}}
  • {{Flag|France}}
  • {{Flag|India}}
  • {{Flag|United Kingdom}}

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A cow shark, a new genus for "Notidanus" aptiensis (Pictet, 1865). Genus also contains a new species Gladioserratus magnus; it might also contain Eocene species "Notorynchus" serratissimus Agassiz (1843).

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Karksiodus{{cite journal |author1=Alexander Ivanov |author2=Tiiu Märss |author3=Anne Kleesment |year=2011 |title=A new elasmobranch Karksiodus mirus gen. et sp. nov. from the Burtnieki Regional Stage, Middle Devonian of Estonia |journal=Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=60 |issue=1 |pages=22–30 |doi=10.3176/earth.2011.1.02|doi-access=free }}

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Gen. et sp. nov

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Valid

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  • Ivanov, Märss & Kleesment

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Devonian (Givetian)

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  • {{Flag|Estonia}}

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A member of Elasmobranchii of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Karksiodus mirus.

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Kawichthys{{cite journal |author1=Alan Pradel |author2=Paul Tafforeau |author3=John G. Maisey |author4=Philippe Janvier |year=2011 |title=A New Paleozoic Symmoriiformes (Chondrichthyes) from the Late Carboniferous of Kansas (USA) and Cladistic Analysis of Early Chondrichthyans |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=6 |issue=9 |page=e24938 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0024938 |bibcode = 2011PLoSO...624938P |pmid=21980367 |pmc=3181253|doi-access=free }}

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Gen. et sp.

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Valid

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  • Pradel
  • Tafforeau
  • et al.Pradel, Tafforeau, Maisey, Janvier.

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Late Virgilian

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Douglas Group

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  • {{Flag|USA}}

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A symmoriiform.

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Lissodus lusavorichi

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Sp. nov

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Valid

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  • Ginter, Hairapetian & Grigoryan

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Devonian (late Famennian)

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  • {{Flag|Armenia}}
  • {{Flag|Iran}}

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A lonchidiid hybodontiform, a species of Lissodus.

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Lonchidion ferganensis

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Species

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Valid

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  • Fischer
  • Voigt
  • et al.

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Middle/Late Triassic

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Madygen Formation

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  • {{Flag|Kyrgyzstan}}

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A hybodontid shark.

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Moerigaleus{{cite journal |author1=Charlie J. Underwood |author2=David J. Ward |year=2011 |title=New hemigaleid shark from the late Eocene of Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=707–711 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2011.563763|s2cid=86381101 }}

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Gen. et sp. nov

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Valid

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  • Underwood & Ward

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Late Eocene

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  • {{Flag|Egypt}}

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A hemigaleid. The type species is Moerigaleus vitreodon.

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Palaeoxyris alterna

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Species

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Valid

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  • Fischer
  • Voigt
  • et al.

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Middle/Late Triassic

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Madygen Formation

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  • {{Flag|Kyrgyzstan}}

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A hybodontid shark.

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Ptychodus atcoensis{{cite journal |author1=Shawn A. Hamm |author2=David J. Cicimurri |year=2011 |title=Early Coniacian (late Cretaceous) selachian fauna from the basal Atco Formation, Lower Austin Group, northcentral Texas |journal=Paludicola |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=107–127}}

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Species

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Valid

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  • Hamm
  • Cicimurri

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Late Cretaceous (early Coniacian)

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Atco Formation

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  • {{Flag|United States}}

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A species of Ptychodus.

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Pueblocarcharias

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Gen. et sp. nov

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Valid

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  • Bourdon et al.

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Late Cretaceous (Santonian)

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Point Lookout Sandstone

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  • {{Flag|United States}}

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A sand shark. The type species is Pueblocarcharias kawaikensis.

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Reginaselache{{cite journal|author1=Susan Turner |author2=Carole J. Burrow |year=2011 |title=A Lower Carboniferous xenacanthiform shark from Australia |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=31 |pages=241–257 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2011.550359 |issue=2 |s2cid=128696440 }}

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Gen. et sp.

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Valid

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  • Turner
  • Burrow

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Middle Viséan

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Ducabrook Formation

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  • {{Flag|Australia}}

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A xenacanthiform.

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Scapanorhynchus puercoensis

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Sp. nov

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Valid

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  • Bourdon et al.

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Late Cretaceous (Santonian)

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Point Lookout Sandstone

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  • {{Flag|United States}}

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A mitsukurinid, a species of Scapanorhynchus.

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Scindocorax

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Gen. et sp. nov

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Valid

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  • Bourdon et al.

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Late Cretaceous (Santonian)

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Point Lookout Sandstone

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  • {{Flag|United States}}

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An anacoracid. The type species is Scindocorax novimexicanus.

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Tassiliodus{{cite journal|author1=Claire Derycke |author2=Daniel Goujet |year=2011 |title=Multicuspidate shark teeth associated with chondrichthyan and acanthodian scales from the Emsian (Devonian) of southern Algeria |url=http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/36312_g2011n2a1.pdf |journal=Geodiversitas |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=209–226 |doi=10.5252/g2011n2a1 |s2cid=129186200 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808050538/http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/36312_g2011n2a1.pdf |archivedate=2011-08-08 }}

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Gen. et sp.

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Valid

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  • Derycke
  • Goujet

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Emsian, Devonian

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  • {{Flag|Algeria}}

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A euselachian.

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Texatrygon stouti

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Sp. nov

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Valid

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  • Bourdon et al.

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Late Cretaceous (Santonian)

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Point Lookout Sandstone

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  • {{Flag|United States}}

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A relative of Ptychotrygon and sclerorhynchids, a species of Texatrygon.

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=Newly named bony fishes=

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Apogon dominans{{Cite journal|author1=Rostislav Brzobohatý |author2=Dirk Nolf |year=2011 |title=Fish otoliths from the Middle Eocene (Bartonian) of Yebra de Basa, province of Huesca, Spain |journal=Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre |volume=81 |pages=279–295 }}

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Sp. nov

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Valid

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  • Brzobohatý
  • Nolf

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Eocene (Bartonian)

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  • {{Flag|Spain}}

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A cardinalfish, a species of Apogon.

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"genus aff. Apogon" viaboadai

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Sp. nov

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Valid

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  • Brzobohatý
  • Nolf

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Eocene (Bartonian)

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  • {{Flag|Spain}}

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A cardinalfish related to members of the genus Apogon.

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Apricenaichthys{{Cite journal|author=Louis Taverne |year=2011 |title=Les poissons du Santonien (Crétacé supérieur) d'Apricena (Italie du Sud). 3°. Apricenaichthys italicus gen. et sp. nov. (Teleostei, Polymixiiformes) |journal=Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona |volume=35 |pages=19–31 |url=http://www.museostorianaturaleverona.it/media/_Musei/_StoriaNaturale/_Allegati/Biblioteca/Bollettino/Bollettino%2035/2._Taverne_Santonien.pdf }}

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Gen. et sp. nov

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Valid

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  • Taverne

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Late Cretaceous (Santonian)

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|

  • {{Flag|Italy}}

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A beardfish. The type species is Apricenaichthys italicus.

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Araripichthys weberi{{cite journal |author1=Jesús Alvarado-Ortega |author2=Paulo M. Brito |year=2011 |title=A new species of Araripichthys (Teleostei, Elopocephala) from the Tlayúa Formation (Cretaceous, Albian), Mexico |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | volume=31 |issue=6 |pages=1376–1381 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2011.602779 |s2cid=129523533 }}

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Species

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Valid

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  • Alvarado-Ortega
  • Brito

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Albian

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Tlayúa Formation

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  • {{Flag|Mexico}}

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An elopocephalan, a species of Araripichthys.

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Arius subtilis{{Cite journal|author1=Werner Schwarzhans |author2=Andriy Bratishko |year=2011 |title=The otoliths from the middle Paleocene of Luzanivka (Cherkasy district, Ukraine) |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=261 |issue=1 |pages=83–110 |doi=10.1127/0077-7749/2011/0154 }}

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Sp. nov

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Valid

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  • Schwarzhans
  • Bratishko

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Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) and Paleocene (Danian and Selandian)

|

|

  • {{Flag|Ukraine}}
  • {{Flag|United States}}{{Cite journal|author1=Werner Schwarzhans |author2=Gary L. Stringer |year=2020 |title=Fish otoliths from the late Maastrichtian Kemp Clay (Texas, USA) and the early Danian Clayton Formation (Arkansas, USA) and an assessment of extinction and survival of teleost lineages across the K-Pg boundary based on otoliths |journal=Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia |volume=126 |issue=2 |pages=395–446 |doi=10.13130/2039-4942/13425 }}

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An ariid catfish, a species of Arius.

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Astroscopus countermani{{cite journal |author1=Giorgio Carnevale |author2=Stephen J. Godfrey |author3=Theodore W. Pietsch |year=2011 |title=Stargazer (Teleostei, Uranoscopidae) cranial remains from the Miocene Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, U.S.A. (St. Marys Formation, Chesapeake Group) |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | volume=31 |issue=6 |pages=1200–1209 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2011.606856 |s2cid=196608143 }}

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Species

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Valid

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  • Carnevale, Godfrey & Pietsch

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Miocene (Tortonian)

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St. Marys Formation

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  • {{Flag|United States}}

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A stargazer, a species of Astroscopus.

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Aulorhamphus chiarasorbiniae{{cite journal |author1=James C. Tyler |author2=Alexandre F. Bannikov |year=2011 |title=A new species of Aulorhamphus fish from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy (†Aulorhamphidae, basal Gasterosteiformes) |journal=Studi e Ricerche Sui Giacimenti Terziari di Bolca, XIII - Miscellanea Paleontologica | volume=10 |pages=37–45 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266088915 }}

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Sp. nov

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Valid

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  • Tyler & Bannikov

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Eocene

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Monte Bolca locality

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  • {{Flag|Italy}}

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An aulorhamphid gasterosteiform, a species of Aulorhamphus.

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Beishanichthys{{Cite journal|author1=Guang-Hui Xu |author2=Ke-Qin Gao |year=2011 |title=A new scanilepiform from the Lower Triassic of northern Gansu Province, China, and phylogenetic relationships of non-teleostean Actinopterygii |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=161 |issue=3 |pages=595–612 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00645.x |doi-access=free }}

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Gen. et sp.

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Valid

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  • Xu
  • Gao

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Early Triassic

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  • {{Flag|China}}

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A scanilepiform.

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Belonostomus lamarquensis{{Cite journal|author1=Sergio Bogan |author2=Louis Taverne |author3=Federico L. Agnolin |year=2011 |title=Description of a new aspidorhynchid fish, Belonostomus lamarquensis sp. nov. (Halecostomi, Aspidorhynchiformes), from the continental Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina |journal=Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre |volume=81 |pages=235–245 }}

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Sp. nov

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Valid

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  • Bogan
  • Taverne
  • Agnolin

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Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian)

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Allen Formation

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  • {{Flag|Argentina}}

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An aspidorhynchiform.

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Bourbonnella jocelynae{{cite journal |author=Mickle, K.E. |year=2011 |title=The early actinopterygian fauna of the Manning Canyon Shale Formation (upper Mississippian, lower Pennsylvanian) of Utah, U.S.A. |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | volume=31 |issue=5 |pages=962–980 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2011.595622|s2cid=129224357 }}

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Species

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Valid

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  • Mickle

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Carboniferous

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Manning Canyon Shale Formation

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  • {{Flag|USA}}

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An aeduellid.

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"genus Bythitidarum" rozenbergi

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Sp. nov

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Valid

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  • Schwarzhans
  • Bratishko

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Paleocene (Selandian)

|

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  • {{Flag|Ukraine}}

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A viviparous brotula of uncertain generic assignment.

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Caucasichthys{{Cite journal|author1=Alexandre F. Bannikov |author2=Giorgio Carnevale |author3=N. V. Parin |year=2011 |title=The new family Caucasichthyidae (Pisces, Perciformes) from the Eocene of the North Caucasus |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=83–89 |doi=10.1134/S0031030111010047 |s2cid=86479567 }}

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Gen. et sp.

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Valid

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  • Bannikov
  • Carnevale
  • Parin

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Bartonian

|

|

  • {{Flag|Russia}}

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A perciform.

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Centroberyx anguinicauda

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Sp. nov

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Valid

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  • Schwarzhans
  • Bratishko

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Paleocene (Selandian)

|

|

  • {{Flag|Ukraine}}

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A member of Berycidae, a species of Centroberyx.

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Chaetodipterus steurbauti

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Sp. nov

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Valid

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  • Brzobohatý
  • Nolf

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Eocene (Bartonian)

|

|

  • {{Flag|Spain}}

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A spadefish, a species of Chaetodipterus.

|

Chlorophthalmus udovichenkoi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Schwarzhans
  • Bratishko

|

Paleocene (Selandian)

|

|

  • {{Flag|Ukraine}}

|

A greeneye, a species of Chlorophthalmus.

|

Dapedium stollorum{{cite journal |author1=Detlev Thies |author2=Rolf Bernhard Hauff |year=2011 |title=A new species of Dapedium LEACH, 1822 (Actinopterygii, Neopterygii, Semionotiformes) from the Early Jurassic of South Germany |journal=Palaeodiversity |volume=4 |pages=185–221 |url=http://www.palaeodiversity.org/pdf/04/Palaeodiversity_4_ThiesHauff.pdf}}

|

Species

|

Valid

|

  • Thies
  • Hauff

|

Early Toarcian

|

|

  • {{Flag|Germany}}

|

A species of Dapedium.

|

"genus Epigonidarum" tyassminensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Schwarzhans
  • Bratishko

|

Paleocene (Selandian)

|

|

  • {{Flag|Ukraine}}

|

A deepwater cardinalfish of uncertain generic assignment.

|

Fierasferoides bucculentus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Schwarzhans
  • Bratishko

|

Paleocene (Selandian)

|

|

  • {{Flag|Ukraine}}

|

A pearlfish, a species of Fierasferoides.

|

Gadophycis serratus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Schwarzhans
  • Bratishko

|

Paleocene (Selandian)

|

|

  • {{Flag|Ukraine}}

|

A cusk-eel, a species of Gadophycis.

|

Guntherichthys

|

Gen. et sp.

|

Valid

|

  • Mickle

|

Carboniferous

|

Manning Canyon Shale Formation

|

  • {{Flag|USA}}

|

A ’palaeoniscoid’.

|

Gwawinapterus

|

Gen. et sp.

|

Valid

|

  • Arbour
  • Currie

|

Campanian

|

Northumberland Formation

|

  • {{Flag|Canada}}

|

Initially thought to be an istiodactylid pterosaur,{{cite journal|year=2011 |title=An istiodactylid pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group, Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada |url=https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/E10-083 |journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=48 |issue=1 |pages=63–69 |doi=10.1139/E10-083 |author1=Victoria M. Arbour |author2=Philip J. Currie |bibcode=2011CaJES..48...63S |url-access=subscription }} but subsequently reinterpreted as an indeterminate saurodontid fish.{{cite journal |year=2012 |title=Reappraisal of Gwawinapterus beardi from the Late Cretaceous of Canada: a saurodontid fish, not a pterosaur |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=32 |issue=5 |pages=1198–1201 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2012.681078 |author1=Romain Vullo |author2=Eric Buffetaut |author3=Michael J. Everhart |s2cid=129180570 }}

|

Habroichthys broughi{{Cite journal|author1=Hun-qin Lin |author2=Zuo-yu Sun |author3=Andrea Tintori |author4=Cristina Lombardo |author5=Da-yong Jiang |author6=Wei-cheng Hao |year=2011 |title=A new species of Habroichthys Brough, 1939 (Actinopterygii; Peltopleuriformes) from the Pelsonian (Anisian, Middle Triassic) of Yunnan Province, South China |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=262 |issue=1 |pages=79–89 |doi=10.1127/0077-7749/2011/0186 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Lin et al.

|

Middle Triassic (Anisian)

|

Guanling Formation

|

  • {{Flag|China}}

|

A member of Peltopleuriformes belonging to the family Habroichthyidae.

|

"genus Haemulidarum" makarenkoi

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Schwarzhans
  • Bratishko

|

Paleocene (Selandian)

|

|

  • {{Flag|Ukraine}}

|

A grunt of uncertain generic assignment.

|

Heteroconger astroblematicus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Schwarzhans
  • Bratishko

|

Paleocene (Selandian)

|

|

  • {{Flag|Ukraine}}

|

A member of Congridae, a species of Heteroconger.

|

"genus Holocentridarum" ryabchuni

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Schwarzhans
  • Bratishko

|

Paleocene (Selandian)

|

|

  • {{Flag|Ukraine}}

|

A member of Holocentridae of uncertain generic assignment.

|

Huashancyprinus{{Cite journal|author1=GengJiao Chen |author2=Mee-mann Chang |year=2011 |title=A new early cyprinin from Oligocene of South China |journal=Science China Earth Sciences |volume=54 |issue=4 |pages=481–492 |doi=10.1007/s11430-011-4182-5 |bibcode=2011ScChD..54..481C |s2cid=85113875 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Chen
  • Chang

|

Oligocene

|

Ningming Formation

|

  • {{Flag|China}}

|

A member of Cyprinidae. The type species is H. robustispinus.

|

Laccognathus embryi{{cite journal |author1=Jason P. Downs |author2=Edward B. Daeschler |author3=Farish A. Jenkins Jr. |author4=Neil H. Shubin |year=2011 |title=A new species of Laccognathus (Sarcopterygii, Porolepiformes) from the Late Devonian of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=31 |issue=5 |pages=981–996 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2011.599462|s2cid=140604758 }}

|

Species

|

Valid

|

  • Downs
  • Daeschler
  • et al.Downs, Daeschler, Jenkins and Shubin.

|

Frasnian

|

Fram Formation

|

  • {{Flag|Canada}}

|

A porolepiform sarcopterygian.

|

Lecceclupea{{Cite journal|author=Louis Taverne |year=2011 |title=Les poissons crétacés de Nardò. 33°. Lecceclupea ehiravaensis gen. et sp. nov. (Teleostei, Clupeidae) |journal=Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona |volume=35 |pages=3–17 |url=http://www.museostorianaturaleverona.it/media/_Musei/_StoriaNaturale/_Allegati/Biblioteca/Bollettino/Bollettino%2035/1._Taverne_Nardo.pdf }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Taverne

|

Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian boundary)

|

|

  • {{Flag|Italy}}

|

A member of Clupeidae belonging to the subfamily Pellonulinae and the tribe Ehiravini. The type species is Lecceclupea ehiravaensis.

|

"genus Leiognathidarum" tashlikensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Schwarzhans
  • Bratishko

|

Paleocene (Selandian)

|

|

  • {{Flag|Ukraine}}

|

A ponyfish of uncertain generic assignment.

|

Lepidotes pankowskii{{cite journal |author1=Peter L. Forey |author2=Adriana López-Arbarello |author3=Norman MacLeod |year=2011 |title=A new species of Lepidotes (Actinopterygii: Semiontiformes) from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Morocco |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=7A:1–12 |url=http://palaeo-electronica.org/2011_1/239/index.html}}

|

Species

|

Valid

|

  • Forey
  • López-Arbarello
  • MacLeod

|

Cenomanian

|

Kem Kem Group

|

  • {{Flag|Morocco}}

|

Originally described as a species of Lepidotes; subsequently made the type species of a separate genus Adrianaichthys.{{Cite journal|author1=François J. Meunier |author2=René-Paul Eustache |author3=Didier Dutheil |author4=Lionel Cavin |year=2016 |title=Histology of ganoid scales from the early Late Cretaceous of the Kem Kem beds, SE Morocco: systematic and evolutionary implications |journal=Cybium |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=121–132 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303018377 |doi=10.26028/cybium/2016-402-003 }}

|

Leufuichthys{{Cite journal|author1=Valéria Gallo |author2=Jorge O. Calvo |author3=Alexander W.A. Kellner |year=2011 |title=First record of a clupeomorph fish in the Neuquén Group (Portezuelo Formation), Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina |journal=Cretaceous Research |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=223–235 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2010.12.006 |doi-access=free }}

|

Gen. et sp.

|

Valid

|

  • Gallo
  • Calvo
  • Kellner

|

Turonian/Coniacian

|

Portezuelo Formation

|

  • {{Flag|Argentina}}

|

A clupeomorph.

|

Maorigadus ukrainicus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Schwarzhans
  • Bratishko

|

Paleocene (Selandian)

|

|

  • {{Flag|Ukraine}}

|

A member of Gadiformes of uncertain phylogenetic placement, related to the family Muraenolepididae; a species of Maorigadus.

|

Mene iberica

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Brzobohatý
  • Nolf

|

Eocene (Bartonian)

|

|

  • {{Flag|Spain}}

|

A species of Mene.

|

"genus Merlucciidarum" antiquus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Schwarzhans
  • Bratishko

|

Paleocene (Selandian)

|

|

  • {{Flag|Ukraine}}

|

A member of Merlucciidae of uncertain generic assignment.

|

Mimipiscis{{cite journal |author=Brian Choo |year=2011 |title=Revision of the actinopterygian genus Mimipiscis (=Mimia) from the Upper Devonian Gogo Formation of Western Australia and the interrelationships of the early Actinopterygii |journal=Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |volume=102 |issue=2 |pages=77–104 |doi=10.1017/S1755691011011029|hdl=1885/59192 |s2cid=129324004 |hdl-access=free }}

|

Nom. nov.

|

Valid

|

  • Choo

|

Upper Devonian

|

Gogo Formation

|

  • {{flag|Australia}}

|

A new generic name for Mimia Gardiner & Bartram (1977). The type species is Mimipiscis toombsi (Gardiner & Bartram 1977).

|

Mimipiscis bartrami

|

Species

|

Valid

|

  • Choo

|

Upper Devonian

|

Gogo Formation

|

  • {{flag|Australia}}

|

A second species of Mimipiscis.

|

Neocybium parvidentatum{{cite journal |author1=Kenneth A. Monsch |author2=Alexandre F. Bannikov |year=2011 |title=New taxonomic synopses and revision of the scombroid fishes (Scombroidei, Perciformes), including billfishes, from the Cenozoic of territories of the former USSR |journal=Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | volume=102 | issue=4 |pages=253–300 |doi=10.1017/S1755691011010085 |s2cid=129577132 }}

|

Species

|

Valid

|

  • Monsch
  • Bannikov

|

Eocene (Bartonian)

|

|

  • {{Flag|Kazakhstan}}

|

A Spanish mackerel, a species of Neocybium.

|

Ogilbia luzanensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Schwarzhans
  • Bratishko

|

Paleocene (Danian to Selandian)

|

|

  • {{Flag|Denmark}}
  • {{Flag|Greenland}}
  • {{Flag|Ukraine}}

|

A viviparous brotula, a species of Ogilbia.

|

Onuxodon yebraensis

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Brzobohatý
  • Nolf

|

Eocene (Bartonian)

|

|

  • {{Flag|Spain}}

|

A pearlfish, a species of Onuxodon.

|

Pardachirus izarrae

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Brzobohatý
  • Nolf

|

Eocene (Bartonian)

|

|

  • {{Flag|Spain}}

|

A sole, a species of Pardachirus.

|

Pavarottia{{cite journal |author1=Alexandre F. Bannikov |author2=Roberto Zorzin |year=2011 |title=A new priacanthid-like percoid fish (Perciformes) from the Eocene of Bolca, Italy |journal=Studi e Ricerche Sui Giacimenti Terziari di Bolca, XIII - Miscellanea Paleontologica | volume=10 |pages=17–27 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266088513 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Bannikov & Zorzin

|

Eocene

|

Monte Bolca locality

|

  • {{Flag|Italy}}

|

A member of Percoidei of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Pavarottia lonardonii.

|

Pesciarhamphus{{cite journal |author1=James C. Tyler |author2=Alexandre F. Bannikov |year=2011 |title=New genus and species of aulorhamphid fish (†Aulorhamphidae, basal Gasterosteiformes) from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy, with a unique first dorsal-fin pterygiophore placement |journal=Studi e Ricerche Sui Giacimenti Terziari di Bolca, XIII - Miscellanea Paleontologica | volume=10 |pages=57–65 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266088981 }}

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Tyler & Bannikov

|

Eocene (Ypresian or Lutetian)

|

Monte Bolca locality

|

  • {{Flag|Italy}}

|

An aulorhamphid gasterosteiform. The type species is Pesciarhamphus carnevalei.

|

Pietschellus{{Cite journal|author1=Alexandre F. Bannikov |author2=Giorgio Carnevale |year=2011 |title=Enigmatic spiny-rayed fish from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy |journal=Geological Journal |volume=46 |issue=1 |pages=52–62 |doi=10.1002/gj.1255 |s2cid=129658292 }}

|

Gen. et sp.

|

Valid

|

  • Bannikov
  • Carnevale

|

Ypresian

|

Monte Bolca

|

  • {{Flag|Italy}}

|

A percomorph.

|

Robertannia{{cite journal |author=Alexandre F. Bannikov |year=2011 |title=A new percoid fish (Perciformes) related to Hendrixella from the Eocene of Bolca, Italy. |journal=Studi e Ricerche Sui Giacimenti Terziari di Bolca, XIII - Miscellanea Paleontologica | volume=10 |pages=7–16 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266088411 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Bannikov

|

Eocene

|

Monte Bolca locality

|

  • {{Flag|Italy}}

|

A member of Percoidei of uncertain phylogenetic placement, related to Hendrixella grandei. The type species is Robertannia sorbiniorum.

|

Scheenstia{{Cite journal|author1=Adriana López-Arbarello |author2=Emilia Sferco|year=2011|title=New semionotiform (Actinopterygii: Neopterygii) from the Late Jurassic of southern Germany|journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=197–215 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2010.493751 |s2cid=129676276|hdl=11336/53446|hdl-access=free}}

|

Gen. et sp.

|

Valid

|

  • López-Arbarello
  • Sferco

|

Late Jurassic

|

|

  • {{Flag|Germany}}

|

A semionotiform.

|

Sharfia{{cite journal |author1=Theodore W. Pietsch |author2=Giorgio Carnevale |year=2011 |title=A New Genus and Species of Anglerfish (Teleostei: Lophiiformes: Lophiidae) from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy |journal=Copeia | volume=2011 | issue=6 |pages=64–71 |doi=10.1643/CI-10-080 |s2cid=84870224 }}

|

Gen. et sp.

|

Valid

|

  • Pietsch
  • Carnevale

|

Eocene (late Ypresian)

|

Monte Bolca locality

|

  • {{Flag|Italy}}

|

A goosefish. The type species is Sharfia mirabilis.

|

Sinosaurichthys{{Cite journal|author1=Wu Feixiang |author2=Sun Yuanlin |author3=Xu Guanghui |author4=Hao Weicheng |author5=Jiang Dayong |author6=Sun Zuoyu |year=2011|title=New saurichthyid fishes (Actinopterygii) from the Middle Triassic (Pelsonian, Anisian) of southwestern China|journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=56 |issue=3 |pages=581–614 |doi=10.4202/app.2010.0007 |doi-access=free }}

|

Gen. et 3 sp.

|

Valid

|

  • Wu
  • Sun
  • et al.Wu, Sun, Xu, Hao, Jiang, Sun.

|

Anisian

|

Guanling Formation

|

  • {{Flag|China}}

|

A saurichthyid.

|

Sorbinichthys africanus{{cite journal |author1=Alison M. Murray |author2=Mark V.H. Wilson |year=2011 |title=A new species of Sorbinichthys (Teleostei: Clupeomorpha: Ellimmichthyiformes) from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco |journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=48 |issue=1 |pages=1–9 |doi=10.1139/E10-084|bibcode = 2011CaJES..48....1S }}

|

Species

|

Valid

|

  • Murray
  • Wilson

|

Cenomanian or Turonian

|

Akrabou Formation

|

  • {{Flag|Morocco}}

|

A species of Sorbinichthys.

|

"genus Sparidarum" spatiatus

|

Sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Schwarzhans
  • Bratishko

|

Paleocene (Selandian)

|

|

  • {{Flag|Ukraine}}

|

A member of Sparidae of uncertain generic assignment.

|

Spinofacia

|

Gen. et sp.

|

Valid

|

  • Mickle

|

Carboniferous

|

Manning Canyon Shale Formation

|

  • {{Flag|USA}}

|

A ’palaeoniscoid’.

|

Steurbautichthys{{Cite journal|author=Louis Taverne |year=2011 |title=Osteologie et relations phylogénétiques de Steurbautichthys ("Pholidophorus") aequatorialis gen. nov. (Teleostei, "Pholidophoriformes") du Jurassique moyen de Kisangani, en République Démocratique du Congo |journal=Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre |volume=81 |pages=129–173 |issn=0374-6291 }}

|

Gen. et comb. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Taverne

|

Middle Jurassic (Aalenian to Bathonian)

|

Stanleyville Formation, Songa Limestones

|

  • {{Flag|Democratic Republic of the Congo}}

|

A relative of Ankylophorus; a new genus for "Pholidophorus" aequatorialis de Saint-Seine & Casier (1962).

|

Tarkus{{Cite journal|author1=Giorgio Carnevale |author2=Theodore W. Pietsch |year=2011 |title=Batfishes from the Eocene of Monte Bolca |journal=Geological Magazine |volume=148 |issue=3 |pages=461–472 |doi=10.1017/S0016756810000907 |bibcode=2011GeoM..148..461C |s2cid=130747215 }}

|

Gen. et sp. nov

|

Valid

|

  • Carnevale
  • Pietsch

|

Eocene (late Ypresian)

|

Monte Bolca locality

|

  • {{Flag|Italy}}

|

A member of Ogcocephalidae. The type species is Tarkus squirei.

|

Notes

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References