Vinctifer

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Kimmeridgian-Aptian
~{{fossil range|150.8|109.0}}

| image = Aspidorhynchidae - Vinctifer comptoni.JPG

| image_caption = Fossil of Vinctifer comptoni

| taxon = Vinctifer

| authority = Jordan, 1919

}}

File: Vinctifer comptoni Naturalis.JPG

Vinctifer is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish erected by David Starr Jordan in 1919.

Fossil record

This genus is known in the fossil record from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) to the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous epoch (age range: from 150.8 to 109.0 million years ago.).Sepkoski, Jack (2002) [http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class A compendium of fossil marine animal genera] Bulletins of American Paleontology Fossils within this genus have been found in the Marizal, Romualdo and Missão Velha Formations of Brazil, Tlayua Formation of Mexico, Apón Formation of Venezuela and Nordenskjöld Formation of Antarctica.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35306 Vinctifer] at Fossilworks.org{{Cite journal |last1=Cantalice |first1=Kleyton M. |last2=Ortega |first2=Jesús Alvarado |last3=Brito |first3=Paulo M. |title=On the occurrence of Vinctifer ferrusquiai sp. nov. (Actinopterygii, Aspidorhynchiformes) in the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) deposits near Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, southern Mexico |url=https://www.redalyc.org/journal/572/57265236006/html/ |journal=Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas |date=2018 |language=en |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=179–187|doi=10.22201/cgeo.20072902e.2018.2.713 |doi-access=free }}