Temporal range: Early Jurassic-Early Cretaceous, 200–140 Ma
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Fossil specimen of C. furcatus from Germany, Upper Jurassic
Life restoration
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Clade:
Halecomorphi
Order:
Amiiformes
Family:
†Caturidae
Genus:
†Caturus Agassiz, 1843
Type species
†Pachycormus furcatus
Agassiz, 1833
Species
See text
Synonyms
†Uraeus Agassiz, 1832
Caturus (from Greek: κατωkato, 'down' and Greek: οὐράourá 'tail')[1][2] is an extinct genus of predatory marine fishes in the family Caturidae in the order Amiiformes, related to modern bowfin. It has been suggested that the genus is non-monophyletic with respect to other caturid genera.[3]
Fossils of this genus range from 200 to 140 mya (Early Jurassic to Early Cretaceous).[4][5]
^Roberts, George (1839). An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and language of geology. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. p. 27. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
^Gouiric-Cavalli, Soledad (2016-06-09). "A new Late Jurassic halecomorph fish from the marine Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina, southwestern Gondwana". Fossil Record. 19 (2): 119–129. Bibcode:2016FossR..19..119G. doi:10.5194/fr-19-119-2016. hdl:11336/54624. ISSN 2193-0074.
^López-Arbarello, Adriana; Ebert, Martin (2023). "Taxonomic status of the caturid genera (Halecomorphi, Caturidae) and their Late Jurassic species". Royal Society Open Science. 10 (1). Bibcode:2023RSOS...1021318L. doi:10.1098/rsos.221318. ISSN 2054-5703. PMC 9832298. PMID 36686548.
^Bogan, Sergio; Taverne, Louis; Federico, Agnolini (2013). "First Triassic and oldest record of a South American amiiform fish: Caturus sp. from the Los Menucos Group (lower Upper Triassic), Río Negro province, Argentina". Geologica Belgica. 16 (3): 191–195.
classified in Caturus or even Caturidae, and are yet to be reclassified. The species C. insignis from the Triassic of Austria, formerly placed in Caturus, is now...
includes the bowfin) first appeared during the Early Jurassic, represented by Caturus from the Pliensbachian of Britain; after their appearance in the western...
the halecomorphs Lepidotes, Propterus, Gyrodus, Mesturus, Proscinetes, Caturus, Ophiopsis and Ophiopsiella, the pachycormids Asthenocormus, Hypsocormus...
the group date to the Early Cretaceous. Members of the family include Caturus, Strobilodus, Amblysemius, and Catutoichthys. López-Arbarello, Adriana;...
gracilis, P. curtus A palaeonisciform fish Dapedium Spp. A dapediiform fish Caturus Spp. An amiiform fish related to bowfins Platysiagum P. sclerocephalum...
Coelodus, Macrosemius, Notagogus, Histionotus, Ionoscopus, Callopterus, Caturus, Sauropsis, Belonostomus, and Thrissops. Also present are at least five...
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