Ganorhynchus
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Dipnoi |
| Family: | †Dipnorhynchidae |
| Genus: | †Ganorhynchus Traquair, 1873 |
| Species: | †G. woodwardi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Ganorhynchus woodwardi Traquair, 1873
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Ganorhynchus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine lungfish from the Devonian period.[1][2] It is likely paraphyletic.[3]
The type species is †Ganorhynchus woodwardi Traquair, 1873, identified from a partial snout of uncertain age and provenance in the collections of the British Museum, and named after paleoichthyologist Arthur Smith Woodward.[4][5] A second apparent species, G. splendens Gross, 1937 is known from the early Givetian of Germany[6], but is likely not closely related to G. woodwardi, with G. splendens being more basal.[3] Another species from Australia, initially described in this genus, was later moved to its own genus, Dipnorhynchus.[7] Another apparent species, G. beecheri Newberry, 1889 from the Catskill Formation of Pennsylvania, US[5] is known from very fragmentary remains, and may not even be a lungfish.[8]
References
- ^ "Ganorhynchus Traquair, 1873". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
- ^ "Mindat.org". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
- ^ a b Friedman, Matt; Daeschler, Edward B. (2006). "Late Devonian (famennian) Lungfishes from the Catskill Formation of Pennsylvania, Usa". Palaeontology. 49 (6): 1167–1183. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00594.x. ISSN 1475-4983.
- ^ Traquair, Ramsay H. (1873). "II.—On a New Genus of Fossil Fish of the Order". Geological Magazine. 10 (114): 552–555. doi:10.1017/S0016756800469360. ISSN 1469-5081.
- ^ a b Woodward (1891). Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History).
- ^ Gross, Walter (1965-10-01). "Über den Vorderschädel von Ganorhynchus splendens Gross (Dipnoi, Mitteldevon)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift (in German). 39 (3): 113–133. doi:10.1007/BF02990158.
- ^ Hills, Edwin Sherbon (1933-06-01). "LXVIII.—On a primitive Dipnoan from the middle Devonian rocks of New South Wales". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 11 (66): 634–643. doi:10.1080/00222933308673736. ISSN 0374-5481.
- ^ Friedman, Matt; Daeschler, Edward B. (2006). "Late Devonian (famennian) Lungfishes from the Catskill Formation of Pennsylvania, Usa". Palaeontology. 49 (6): 1167–1183. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00594.x. ISSN 1475-4983.