Jefitchia

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| taxon = Jefitchia

| authority = Frizzell & Dante, 1965

| type_species = {{extinct}}Jefitchia copelandi

| type_species_authority = Frizzell & Dante, 1965{{cite journal | author1 = Jun A. Ebersole | author2 = David J. Cicimurri | author3 = Gary L. Stringer | name-list-style = & | year = 2019 | title = Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths | journal = European Journal of Taxonomy | issue = 585 | pages = 1–274 | doi = 10.5852/ejt.2019.585| doi-access = free }}

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Jefitchia is an extinct genus of drum. Species lived from 48.6–33.9 mya (Middle Eocene – Late Oligocene). Jefitchia have been uncovered in Texas, Louisiana, and Portugal[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=63197][https://web.archive.org/web/20080312031644/http://www.dct.fct.unl.pt/PLegoinha/Patpaleo.html].

Species

Jefitchia contains 3 species:

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| {{extinct}}Jefitchia claybornensis | Frizzell & Dante, 1965{{cite web |url = https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=401141 | title = †Jefitchia claybornensis Koken 1888 (ray-finned fish) | access-date = 12 May 2023 | publisher = Paleobiology Database}}

| {{extinct}}Jefitchia copelandi | (Koken, 1888){{cite web | url = https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=133536 | title = †Jefitchia copelandi Frizzell and Dante 1965 (ray-finned fish) | access-date = 12 May 2023 | publisher = Paleobiology Database}}

| {{extinct}}Jefitchia spinosa | Jonet, 1979{{cite journal | last1 = Mateus | first1 = Octávio | last2 = Estraviz López | first2 = Darío | last3 = Mateus |first3 = Simao | year = 2022 | title = Type specimens alone have a strong correlation with taxa record by geological epoch: the case study of the fossil vertebrates named from Portuguese types | journal = Comunicações Geológicas | volume = 109 | pages = 57–64 | doi = 10.34637/z1t1-j459}}

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References

External links

[http://www.icms.com.au/inqua2007/abstract/958.htm Mangrove-dwelling vertebrates from Deep Time: an example of a diverse, middle Eocene community from Laredo, Texas, USA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706104743/http://www.icms.com.au/inqua2007/abstract/958.htm |date=2011-07-06 }}

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Category:Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera

Category:Eocene fish

Category:Fossils of Portugal