Putative Remains of an Enigmatic Cretaceous Bony Fish, Palaeonotopterus greenwoodi (Teleostei: Osteoglossomorpha), from Alabama, U.S.A.

Riley J. Hacker; Maxwell G. London; Kenshu Shimada

doi:10.1660/062.123.0314

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Riley J. Hacker,¹ Maxwell G. London,² Kenshu Shimada^1,3,4

¹1. Department of Biological Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois rhacker2@mail.depaul.edu
²2. Department of Geology, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois maxwellglondon@gmail.com
³3. Department of Environmental Science and Studies, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois kshimada@depaul.edu
⁴4. Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas

Abstract

Palaeonotopterus greenwoodi Forey is an enigmatic Cretaceous bony fish (Teleostei: Osteoglossomorpha) currently known only from Albian–Cenomanian deposits of Morocco. Here, we describe nine fossil tooth plate specimens from the Eutaw Formation and Mooreville Chalk Formation from Alabama, U.S.A., tentatively assigned to P. greenwoodi. If they indeed belong to the taxon, these specimens not only represent the geologically youngest material ranging from late Santonian to early Campanian in age, but also constitute the first record of the species outside of Morocco.

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Riley J. Hacker, Maxwell G. London, and Kenshu Shimada "Putative Remains of an Enigmatic Cretaceous Bony Fish, Palaeonotopterus greenwoodi (Teleostei: Osteoglossomorpha), from Alabama, U.S.A.," Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 123(3-4), 441-447, (26 October 2020). https://doi.org/10.1660/062.123.0314

Published: 26 October 2020

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