Caprovesposus
| Caprovesposus Temporal range:
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acanthuriformes |
| Family: | Acanthuridae |
| Genus: | †Caprovesposus Daniltshenko, 1960 |
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Caprovesposus is an extinct, prehistoric surgeonfish that inhabited the Paratethys Sea from the Oligocene to Middle Miocene. It is known from a two species, both known from what is now the North Caucasus, Russia. The two described species are †C. parvus Daniltshenko, 1960 from the Early Oligocene, and †C. daniltshenkoi Bannikov, Tyler & Tyler, 2025 from the Early or Middle Miocene. Potential specimens are known from the Miocene of Egypt, but these are poorly preserved and this attribution is uncertain. Potential undescribed specimens are also known as far back as the Middle Eocene.[1][2][3]
Known from very small fossils (up to 3 centimeters in length), it was initially described as a boarfish, but later studies found it to represent a pelagic larval (acronurus) or juvenile stage of a surgeonfish.[1][4] The adult form is, as yet, unknown.[3]
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References
- ^ a b Bannikov, A. F.; Tyler (1992). "Caprovesposus from the Oligocene of Russia: the pelagic acronurus presettlement stage of a surgeonfish (Teleostei: Acanthuridae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 105 (4).
- ^ Tyler, James C.; Micklich, Norbert R. (2011-10-01). "A new genus and species of surgeon fish (Perciformes, Acanthuridae) from the Oligocene of Kanton Glarus, Switzerland". Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. 130 (2): 203–216. Bibcode:2011SwJP..130..203T. doi:10.1007/s13358-011-0016-5. ISSN 1664-2384.
- ^ a b Bannikov, Alexandre F.; Tyler, James C.; Tyler, Diane M. (2025-11-11). "A new species of the surgeonfish genus †Caprovesposus (Acanthuridae) from the Lower to Middle Miocene of the North Caucasus, Russia". Zootaxa. 5719 (1): 117–125. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5719.1.6. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-04-20.
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