Charitopsis (fish)
| Charitopsis Temporal range:
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| Charitopsis spinosus Museo Scienze Naturali di Faenza | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gonorynchiformes |
| Family: | Gonorynchidae |
| Genus: | †Charitopsis Gayet, 1993 |
| Species: | †C. spinosus
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| †Charitopsis spinosus Gayet, 1993
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Charitopsis is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the lower Cenomanian. It was a relative of modern beaked salmons. It contains a single species, C. spinosus from the Sannine Formation of Lebanon. It is possibly related to the sympatric gonorynchid Charitosomus, although some anatomical traits are more similar to the Cenozoic gonorynchids (Notogoneus and Gonorynchus itself).[1][2][3]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ "Charitopsis". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
- ^ Fara, Emmanuel; Gayet, Mireille; Taverne, Louis (2010), "The Fossil Record of Gonorynchiformes", Gonorynchiformes and Ostariophysan Relationships, CRC Press, pp. 173–226, doi:10.1201/b10194-6, ISBN 978-0-429-06156-1, retrieved 2024-05-09
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