Temporal range: Early Cretaceous-Late Cretaceous, Albian–Maastrichtian
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Tselfatia formosa fossil in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Supercohort:
Teleocephala
Clade:
Osteoglossocephala
Clade:
Clupeocephala
Order:
†Tselfatiiformes Nelson, 1994
Families
†Eoplethodus
†Plethodidae
†Protobramidae
Synonyms
Bananogmiiformes
Tselfatiiformes is an extinct order of bony fishes from the infraclass Teleostei.[1][2][3] The order represents the most important radiation of marine teleosts during the Cretaceous period. Fossils of tselfatiiforms are known from Europe, North America, central and northern South America, the Middle East and North Africa.[1]
The order appeared in the upper Albian on the coasts of Europe and North Africa and spread during the Cenomanian and Turonian on the Proto Atlantic to the coasts of northern South America, the Gulf of Mexico and into the Western Interior Seaway.[1] In the Coniacian and Santonian they were very common in North American coastal waters, but disappeared from Europe and North Africa. A few species still lived in the Campanian in the Gulf of Mexico and only plethodids survived until the end of Maastrichtian.[4]
^ abcJoseph S. Nelson: Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7.
^Cavin, Lionel; Boudad, Larbi; Tong, Haiyan; Läng, Emilie; Tabouelle, Jérôme; Vullo, Romain (2015-05-27). "Taxonomic Composition and Trophic Structure of the Continental Bony Fish Assemblage from the Early Late Cretaceous of Southeastern Morocco". PLOS ONE. 10 (5): e0125786. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1025786C. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0125786. PMC 4446216. PMID 26018561.
^Cooper, Samuel. L. A.; Norton, Jack L. (2023-08-08). "Youngest occurrence of a plethodid fish (Teleostei: Tselfatiiformes: Plethodidae) from the Maastrichtian of North Africa". Cretaceous Research: 105673. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105673. ISSN 0195-6671.
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