Archaeozeus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}

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| taxon = Archaeozeus skamolensis

| fossil_range = Ypresian, {{fossil_range|55.8|53.5}}

| authority = Bonde & Tyler in Tyler et al., 2001

| parent_authority = Bonde & Tyler in Tyler et al., 2001

| grandparent_authority = Tyler & Santini, 2005

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Archaeozeus is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish from the Ypresian epoch Fur Formation of Denmark. It contains a single species, A. skamolensis, and is the only member of the family Archaeozeidae.{{Cite web |title=PBDB |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=419561 |access-date=2024-02-25 |website=paleobiodb.org}}{{cite journal|first1=Donald|last1=Davesne|first2=Giorgio|last2=Carnevale|first3=Matt|last3=Friedman|year=2017|title=Bajaichthys elegans from the Eocene of Bolca (Italy) and the overlooked morphological diversity of Zeiformes (Teleostei, Acanthomorpha)|journal=Palaeontology|volume=60|issue=2|pages=255–268|doi=10.1111/pala.12280|bibcode=2017Palgy..60..255D |doi-access=free|hdl=2027.42/136341|hdl-access=free}}{{cite journal |author=Matt Friedman |year=2009 |title=Ecomorphological selectivity among marine teleost fishes during the end-Cretaceous extinction |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=106 |pages=5218–5223 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0808468106 |issue=13 |pmid=19276106 |pmc=2664034|bibcode=2009PNAS..106.5218F |doi-access=free }} It is considered the most basal member of the order Zeiformes.{{Cite journal |last=Tyler |first=James C. |last2=Santini |first2=Francesco |date=2005 |title=A phylogeny of the fossil and extant zeiform‐like fishes, Upper Cretaceous to Recent, with comments on the putative zeomorph clade (Acanthomorpha) |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00180.x |journal=Zoologica Scripta |language=en |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=157–175 |doi=10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00180.x |issn=0300-3256|url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal |last1=Near |first1=Thomas J |last2=Thacker |first2=Christine E |date=18 April 2024 |title=Phylogenetic classification of living and fossil ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) |journal=Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History |volume=65 |doi=10.3374/014.065.0101 |doi-access=free}}