Phyllodus

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| taxon = Phyllodus

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| subdivision = *Phyllodus bucklandi

Phyllodus curvidens
Phyllodus elegans
Phyllodus hipparionyx
Phyllodus marginalis
Phyllodus paulkatoi
Phyllodus planus
Phyllodus polyodus
Phyllodus toliapicus

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Phyllodus is an extinct genus of bony fish from the Maastrichtian to Middle Miocene. Fossils of the genus have been found in the Maastrichtian to Danian Hell Creek Formation, the Eocene London Clay, the Early eocene Nanjemoy formation.{{Cite web |date=2019-10-28 |title=Phyllodus pharyngeal plates from the Eocene of Virginia |url=https://www.thefossilforum.com/topic/99618-phyllodus-pharyngeal-plates-from-the-eocene-of-virginia/ |access-date=2024-11-25 |website=The Fossil Forum |language=en-US}}{{Cite journal |last=Gildersleeve |first=Benjamin |date=1933 |title=Pharyngeal plates of Phyllodus from the Virginia Eocene |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/24530350 |journal=Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences |volume=23 |issue=8 |pages=380–389 |jstor=24530350 |issn=0043-0439}} and the Paleocene of South Carolina.{{Cite journal |last=Weems |first=Robert E. |date=1998 |title=Actinopterygian Fish Remains from the Paleocene of South Carolina |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1006672 |journal=Transactions of the American Philosophical Society |volume=88 |issue=4 |pages=147–164 |doi=10.2307/1006672|jstor=1006672 }}

Classification

It was assigned to Actinopteri by Cope (1875);{{Cite book |last=Cope |first=E. D. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.166590 |title=Contributions to the history of the vertebrata of the Lower Eocene of Wyoming and New Mexico made during 1881 / |date=1882 |publisher=[publisher not identified] |location=[Philadelphia?]|doi=10.5962/bhl.title.166590 }} to Phyllodontinae by Estes and Hiatt (1978);{{Cite journal |last=Estes |first=Richard |date=1969-06-03 |title=Studies on Fossil Phyllodont Fishes: Interrelationships and Evolution in the Phyllodontidae (Albuloidei) |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1442082 |journal=Copeia |volume=1969 |issue=2 |pages=317–331 |doi=10.2307/1442082 |jstor=1442082 |issn=0045-8511}} to Labridae by Hay (1902),{{Cite book |last=Hay |first=Oliver Perry |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.20094 |title=Bibliography and catalogue of the fossil vertebrata of North America |date=1902 |publisher=Govt. Print. Off |location=Washington|doi=10.5962/bhl.title.20094 }} Leriche (1942),{{Cite thesis |last=Καρακίτσιος |first=Βασίλειος |title=CONTRIBUTION A L'ETUDE GEOLOGIQUE DES HELLENIDES. ETUDE DE LA REGION DE SELLIA (CRETE MOYENNE-OCCIDENTALE, GRECE): LES RELATIONS LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIQUES ET STRUCTURALES ENTRE LA SERIE DES PHYLLADES ET LA SERIE CARBONATEE DE TRIPOLITZA |date=1979 |publisher=National Documentation Centre (EKT) |doi=10.12681/eadd/4638 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/eadd/4638}} Rapp (1946) and Thurmond and Jones (1981);{{Cite journal |last=D. L. D. |date=1982 |title=J. T. Thurmond & D. E. Jones 1981. Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama. ix + 244 pp., 88 figs. Alabama: University of Alabama Press. Price £13.50. ISBN 0 8173 0006 6. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800025978 |journal=Geological Magazine |volume=119 |issue=2 |pages=222–224 |doi=10.1017/s0016756800025978 |bibcode=1982GeoM..119..222D |issn=0016-7568}} to Anguilliformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Phyllodontidae by Casier (1946),{{Cite book |last=Goetghebuer |first=Maurice. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.52331 |title=Chironomides de Belgique et spécialement de la zone des Flandres |date=1921 |publisher=M. Hayez, imprimeur de l'Académie royale de Belgique |series=Mémoires du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique |location=Bruxelles|doi=10.5962/bhl.title.52331 }} Casier (1966),{{Cite journal |last=Schaeffer |first=Bobb |date=1967 |title=Faune Ichthyologique du London Clay.Edgard Casier |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/405419 |journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=423–424 |doi=10.1086/405419 |issn=0033-5770}} Bryant (1989),{{Citation |last1=Archibald |first1=J. David |title=Differential Cretaceous/Tertiary extinctions of nonmarine vertebrates; Evidence from northeastern Montana |date=1990 |pages=549–562 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/spe247-p549 |access-date=2024-11-25 |publisher=Geological Society of America |last2=Bryant |first2=Laurie J.|series=Geological Society of America Special Papers |volume=247 |doi=10.1130/spe247-p549 |isbn=0-8137-2247-0 }} Weems (1998),{{Cite journal |last=Weems |first=Robert E. |date=1998 |title=Actinopterygian Fish Remains from the Paleocene of South Carolina |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1006672 |journal=Transactions of the American Philosophical Society |volume=88 |issue=4 |pages=147–164 |doi=10.2307/1006672 |jstor=1006672 |issn=0065-9746}} Weems (1999){{Cite journal |last=Sweet |first=Palmer C. |date=1974 |title=Mineral-And Fossil-Collecting Localities in Virginia |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00357529.1974.11762283 |journal=Rocks & Minerals |volume=49 |issue=9 |pages=507–510 |doi=10.1080/00357529.1974.11762283 |bibcode=1974RoMin..49..507S |issn=0035-7529}} and Ebersole et al. (2019).{{Cite journal |last1=Ebersole |first1=Jun A. |last2=Cicimurri |first2=David J. |last3=Stringer |first3=Gary L. |date=2019-12-06 |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 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2019.585 |journal=European Journal of Taxonomy |issue=585 |doi=10.5852/ejt.2019.585 |issn=2118-9773}}

Phyllodus

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