Temporal range: Pennsylvanian (Moscovian to Kasimovian),
315–307 Ma
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Life reconstruction of M. pieckoensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Hyperoartia
Order:
Petromyzontiformes
Family:
Mayomyzontidae
Genus:
Mayomyzon
Bardack and Zangerl 1968
Type species
Mayomyzon pieckoensis
Bardack and Zangerl 1968
Mayomyzon pieckoensis is an extinct species of lamprey that lived during the Late Carboniferous period, about 300 million years ago. It is the only known species of the genus Mayomyzon, which belongs to the family Mayomyzontidae. It is known from the Mazon Creek fossil beds located in present-day Illinois.[1]
^Bardack, David; Zangerl, Rainer (December 13, 1968). "First Fossil Lamprey: A Record from the Pennsylvanian of Illinois". Science. 162 (3859): 1265–1267. Bibcode:1968Sci...162.1265B. doi:10.1126/science.162.3859.1265. PMID 5699202. S2CID 33190930 – via CrossRef.
Mayomyzon pieckoensis is an extinct species of lamprey that lived during the Late Carboniferous period, about 300 million years ago. It is the only known...
arranged teeth. However, some specimens assigned to the coeval lamprey Mayomyzon, also found in the Mazon Creek beds, also have similar mouthparts. Since...
360 million years ago, with other stem-group lampreys, like Pipiscius, Mayomyzon and Hardistiella known from the Carboniferous of North America. These...
Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also †Mayomyzon †Mesomyzon †Metapolygnathus †Metaspriggina †Myllokunmingia †Myxinikela...
variation between fossils, and apply this method to fossils of Tethymyxine, Mayomyzon, Priscomyzon, "euphaneropoids" and Palaeospondylus. Wang, Shu & Wang (2023)...
developed in ancient seas. The oral disk of the Late Carboniferous lamprey Mayomyzon pieckoensis, if present, is much smaller, while there is no evidence of...
juvenile forms of four stem lampreys from the Paleozoic era (Hardistiella, Mayomyzon, Pipiscius and Priscomyzon), including a hatchling-to-adult growth series...
al. (2016). New information on the anatomy of the Carboniferous taxa Mayomyzon pieckoensis and Myxinikela siroka is published by Gabbott et al. (2016)...
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