Enniskillenus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Family: | †Palaeorhynchidae |
| Genus: | †Enniskillenus Casier, 1966 |
| Species: | †E. radiatus
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| †Enniskillenus radiatus Casier, 1966 ex Agassiz, 1833
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Enniskillenus is an extinct genus of prehistoric billfish from the Eocene of Europe. It contains a single species, E. radiatus from the Early Eocene-aged London Clay of England.[1][2]
The species was first improperly named without a description (as Ptychocephalus radiatus) by Agassiz (1833), and later assigned as an indeterminate member of Palaeorhynchus by Woodward (1901).[3] It was properly described by Casier in 1966,[3] who placed it in the new genus Enniskillenus, named in honor of William Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen, who collected fossil fish and donated specimens to the British Museum.[4]
Although often often placed in the primitive billfish family Palaeorhynchidae, most specimens of Enniskillenus do not preserve enough traits for a refined classification, though their vertebral morphology and rostra confirm that they are at least billfish.[3]
References
[edit]- Enniskillenus, Paleobiology Database
- ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
- ^ "Enniskillenus radiatus – London Clay Fossils". Retrieved 2024-12-29.
- ^ a b c Monsch, Kenneth A. (2004). "Revision of the scombroid fishes from the Cenozoic of England". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 95 (3–4): 445–489. doi:10.1017/S0263593300001164. ISSN 1755-6929.
- ^ Friedman, Matt; Beckett, Hermione T.; Close, Roger A.; Johanson, Zerina (2016). "The English Chalk and London Clay: two remarkable British bony fish Lagerstätten". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 430 (1): 165–200. doi:10.1144/SP430.18.
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