Daitingichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Jurassic period. It contains a single species, D. tischlingeri from the early Tithonian-aged Mörnsheim Formation of the Solnhofen Limestone, Germany.[1][2][3][4] It is thought to be a stem-elopiform, related to modern ladyfish and tarpons.[5]

Daitingichthys
Temporal range: Early Tithonian[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Elopiformes
Genus: Daitingichthys
Arratia, 1987
Species:
D. tischlingeri
Binomial name
Daitingichthys tischlingeri
Arratia, 1987

References

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  1. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on July 23, 2011. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
  3. ^ Arratia, Gloria (1999). "New Jurassic teleostean fishes from the Late Jurassic of Bavaria" (PDF). Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Caffi". 20: 13–15.
  4. ^ Lambers, Paul H. (1999-06-01). "The actinopterygian fish fauna of the Late Kimmeridgian and Early Tithonian 'Plattenkalke' near Solnhofen (Bavaria, Germany): state of the art". Geologie en Mijnbouw. 78 (2): 215–229. doi:10.1023/A:1003855831015. ISSN 1573-9708.
  5. ^ Near, Thomas J.; Thacker, Christine E. (2024-04-18). "Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii)". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 65 (1). doi:10.3374/014.065.0101. ISSN 0079-032X.