Aidachar Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous,
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Life restoration of A. paludalis | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | † Ichthyodectiformes |
Family: | † Cladocyclidae |
Genus: | †
Aidachar Nesov, 1981 |
Species | |
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Aidachar (named for Aydahar, a mythical Kazakh dragon) is an extinct genus of marine ichthyodectiform teleost ray-finned fish from the Late Cretaceous ( Cenomanian- Turonian) [1] of Central Asia and North Africa.
The type species is A. paludalis, named by Lev Nesov in 1981 from remains discovered in the Kyzyl Kum desert of Uzbekistan. [2] At first, he tentatively described the fossil material as the jaw fragments of a ctenochasmatid pterosaur (a flying reptile), but reinterpreted Aidachar as a fish in 1986. [2] [3] The second species, A. pankowskii, is described from Kem Kem Group of Morocco and reclassified from the genus Cladocyclus, to which it is thought to be closely related. [4] [5]
Aidachar Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous,
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Life restoration of A. paludalis | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | † Ichthyodectiformes |
Family: | † Cladocyclidae |
Genus: | †
Aidachar Nesov, 1981 |
Species | |
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Aidachar (named for Aydahar, a mythical Kazakh dragon) is an extinct genus of marine ichthyodectiform teleost ray-finned fish from the Late Cretaceous ( Cenomanian- Turonian) [1] of Central Asia and North Africa.
The type species is A. paludalis, named by Lev Nesov in 1981 from remains discovered in the Kyzyl Kum desert of Uzbekistan. [2] At first, he tentatively described the fossil material as the jaw fragments of a ctenochasmatid pterosaur (a flying reptile), but reinterpreted Aidachar as a fish in 1986. [2] [3] The second species, A. pankowskii, is described from Kem Kem Group of Morocco and reclassified from the genus Cladocyclus, to which it is thought to be closely related. [4] [5]