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Caturus is an extinct genus of fishes in the family Caturidae. Fossils of this genus range from 254.0 to 109 mya.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caturus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3238445	https://www.gbif.org/species/3238445
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	35196	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35196

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopterygii : Amiiformes : Caturidae : Caturus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Amiiformes : Caturidae : Caturus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
superclass	Actinopterygii
class	Actinopteri
subclass	Neopterygii
infraclass	Holostei
order	Amiiformes	Hay 1929
family	Caturidae	Owen 1860
genus	Caturus	Agassiz 1834

Scientific Name

Caturus Agassiz, 1834

Name Published In

N. Jahrb. Min., 1834

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Caturus	genus	belongs to Eugnathidae	stated with evidence	Woodward, 1895
Caturus	genus	belongs to Furidae	stated without evidence	Gardiner, 1960
Caturus	genus	belongs to Amiidae	stated with evidence	Beltan, 1984
Caturus	genus	belongs to Caturidae	stated with evidence	Schaeffer and Patterson, 1984
Caturus	genus	belongs to Amiiformes	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

254 - 252 Ma
Permian

Last Recorded Appearance

105 - 100 Ma
Cretaceous

Environment

marine (based on Vertebrata)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Amiiformes)

Diet

carnivore, piscivore (based on Amiiformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

L. Agassiz. 1843. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome I (livr. 18). Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caturus

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Amiopsis dartoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Caturus agassizi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	197 Ma Early Jurassic	197 Ma Early Jurassic
Caturus chaperi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Caturus chirotes ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Caturus cliftoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Caturus dartoni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Caturus ferox ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	197 Ma Early Jurassic	197 Ma Early Jurassic
Caturus furcatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	156 Ma Jurassic	156 Ma Jurassic
Caturus giganteus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Caturus heterurus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	197 Ma Early Jurassic	197 Ma Early Jurassic
Caturus impar species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Caturus insignis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	216 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	216 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Caturus latidens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Caturus latipennis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	197 Ma Early Jurassic	197 Ma Early Jurassic
Caturus porteri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Caturus retrodorsalis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Caturus smithwoodwardi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Caturus stenospondylus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Caturus stenoura ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Caturus tenuidens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Caturus velifer species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Endactis agassizi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eugnathus chirotes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Eugnathus insignis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Strobilodus Wagner, 1851	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Actinopterygii : Amiiformes : Caturidae : *Strobilodus*
Conodus Agassiz, 1843	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Actinopterygii : Amiiformes : Caturidae : *Conodus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1843	Caturus Agassiz p. 174
1843	Conodus Agassiz p. 174
1843	Uraeus Agassiz p. 179
1851	Strobilodus Wagner
1858	Endactis Egerton figs. Pl 4
1866	Ditaxiodus Owen
1866	Thlattodus Owen
1895	Caturus Woodward p. 329

Year	Name and Author
1948	Caturus Rayner p. 293 figs. 4-9; pl. 22, figs 46-48
1960	Caturus Gardiner p. 293
1984	Caturus Beltan p. 125
1984	Caturus Schaeffer and Patterson p. 38
1997	Caturus Delsate p. 129
1999	Caturus Cartanyá p. 548
2002	Caturus Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Agassiz L. , Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome I (livr. 18). Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel, xxxii-188

Egerton P. M. G. Figures and descriptions illustrative of British organic remains, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, Decade IX, Supplement 2, Pl 1-Pl 10

Woodward A. S. , Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III, 1-544

Rayner D. H. (1948) The Structure of Certain Jurassic Holostean Fishes with Special Reference to Their Neurocrania, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 233 601, 287-345

Gardiner B. G. (1960) A revision of certain actinopterygian and coelacanth fishes, chiefly from the Lower Lias, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 4 7, 241-384

Beltan L. (1984) Quelques poissons du Muschelkalk superieur d'Espagne, Acta Geologica Hispanica 19, 117-127

Schaeffer B., Patterson C. (1984) Jurassic fishes from the western United States, with comments on Jurassic fish distribution, American Museum Novitates 2796, 1-86

Delsate D. (1997) Actinoptérygiens du Toarcien inférieur du Grand Duché de Luxembourg: Présence de Leptoplepis normandica Nybelin 1962 (Téléostéen) ave otolithes in situ, Travaux scientifiques du Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Luxembourg 27, 125-129

Cartanyá J. (1999) An overview of the Middle Triassic actinopterygians from Alcover, Mont-ral and El Pinetell (Catalonia, Spain), Mesozoic Fishes 2 - Systematics and the Fossil Record 2, 535-551

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

N. Jahrb. Min., 1834 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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