Casierius Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Albuliformes |
Family: | † Phyllodontidae |
Genus: | †
Casierius Estes, 1969 |
Species: | †C. heckeli
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†Casierius heckeli Estes, 1969
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Casierius is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous epoch. [1] It was a relative of the modern bonefish in the extinct family Phyllodontidae, although some authorities consider it either a true albulid (making it even more closely related to bonefish) or a very early eel. [2] [3] [4] [5] It contains a single species, C. heckeli, known from the Glen Rose Formation near Hood County, Texas. [6]
Casierius Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Albuliformes |
Family: | † Phyllodontidae |
Genus: | †
Casierius Estes, 1969 |
Species: | †C. heckeli
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Binomial name | |
†Casierius heckeli Estes, 1969
|
Casierius is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous epoch. [1] It was a relative of the modern bonefish in the extinct family Phyllodontidae, although some authorities consider it either a true albulid (making it even more closely related to bonefish) or a very early eel. [2] [3] [4] [5] It contains a single species, C. heckeli, known from the Glen Rose Formation near Hood County, Texas. [6]