Asiatoceratodus
{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = Middle Triassic-early Late Cretaceous
| taxon = Asiatoceratodus
| authority = Vorobyeva, 1967
| type_species = {{extinct}}Asiatoceratodus sharovi
| type_species_authority = Vorobyeva, 1967
| subdivision_ranks = Other species
| subdivision = * {{extinct}}A. tiguidiensis
}}
Asiatoceratodus is an extinct genus of lungfish which lived during the Middle-Late Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods in what is now Asia (Kyrgyzstan), Africa (Ethiopia, Niger, Algeria, Morocco) and South America (Uruguay and Brazil).
Species
= ''Asiatoceratodus sharovi'' =
Complete skeletons of Asiatoceratodus sharovi first described by Vorobyeva (1967) from the Middle-Late Triassic deposits of Fergana valley in Kyrgyzstan. Skrzycki, Piotr; Niedźwiedzki, Grzegorz; Tałanda, Mateusz. 2018. [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018217301207 Dipnoan remains from the Lower-Middle Triassic of the Holy Cross Mountains and northeastern Poland, with remarks on dipnoan palaeobiogeography]. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 496: 332-345 This species is characterizes by toothed plates with 4 to 5 crests.M. G. Minich. 1977. "[http://mmtk.ginras.ru/pdf/minih1977_triassic_dipnoi.pdf Triassic Dipnoi of Eastern European part of USSR" (in Russian)]. Saratov University Publishing. Page 8.
= ''Asiaticeratodus tiguidiensis'' =
Another species originally was described from the Late Jurassic site of Algeria as Ceratodus tiguidiensisN. Tabaste. 1963. Étude derestes de poissons du Crétacé saharien [Study of fish remains from the Saharan Cretaceous]. Mélanges Ichthyologiques Dédiés à la Mémoire d’Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865). Mémoires de l’Institute Français d’Afrique Noire 68:437-485 Later, C. tiguidiensis was assigned to Arganodus by M. Martin (1984)Martin, M., 1984. Révision des Arganodontidés et des Néocératodontidés (Dipnoi,
Ceratodontiformes) du Crétacé africain. Neues Jb. Geol. Paläontol. Abh. 169, 225–260. and reassigned by Kemp (1998) to the genus Asiatoceratodus.Kemp, A. 1998. Skull structure in post-paleozoic lungfish. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 18(1): 43-63. Despite this, some authors uses Arganodus tiguidiensis in their articles.Lionel Cavin, Larbi Boudad, Haiyan Tong, Emilie Läng. 2015. "Taxonomic Composition and Trophic Structure of the Continental Bony Fish Assemblage from the Early Late Cretaceous of Southeastern Morocco." PLoS ONE 10(5):e0125786 DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0125786 A. tiguidiensis was also found in the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Tacuarembo Formation of Uruguay,D. Perea, M. Soto, G. Verolavsky, S. Martinez, and M. Ubilla. 2009. A Late Jurassic fossil assemblage in Gondwana: biostratigraphy and correlations of the Tacuarembo Formation, Parana Basin, Uruguay. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 28:168-179 the northwestern Ethiopian plateau of latest Jurassic (Tithonian) age,M. B. Goodwin, W. A. Clemens, J. H. Hutchison, C. B. Wood, M. S. Zavada, A. Kemp, C. J. Duffin and C. R. Schaff. 1999. Mesozoic continental vertebrates with associated palynostratigraphic dates from the northwestern Ethiopian plateau. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(4):728-741 the Cretaceous Elrhaz Formation of Niger,"On the dinosaurian and crocodilian locality of Gadoufaoua (Republic of
Niger)" ([https://paleoglot.org/files/Taquet_2070.pdf PDF]). From Mr. Philippe Taquet (1970), presented by Mr. Jean Piveteau. the Early Late Cretaceous assemblage of Southeastern Morocco and the Cenomanian Alcântara Formation of Brazil.
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