Gasterorhamphosus
| Gasterorhamphosus Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Syngnathiformes |
| Suborder: | Syngnathoidei |
| Genus: | †Gasterorhamphosus Sorbini, 1981 |
| Species: | †G. zuppichini
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| Binomial name | |
| †Gasterorhamphosus zuppichini Sorbini, 1981
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Gasterorhamphosus is an extinct genus of marine syngnathiform fish that lived during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous.[1] It contains a single species, G. zuppichini from the Calcari di Melissano formation of Italy.[2]
It is the oldest known syngnathiform fish, making it distantly related to modern seahorses, pipefish, and trumpetfish.[3] It shares an especially close similarity to modern snipefish, and has sometimes been placed in the same clade as them (the Centriscoidea).[4] Others have found it to instead belong to the Aulostomoidea, containing trumpetfish and cornetfish.[3] However, other analyses indicate that it likely occupies a more stemward position within the group.[4] Despite this, studies have found it to at least group within the "long-snouted" clade of Syngnathiformes (the Syngnathoidei), making it the earliest known crown group-syngnathiform, and the oldest known definitive crown-group percomorph.[3][5]
References
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- ^ a b Mé[email protected], Kleyton Magno Cantalice~Universidad Nacional Autónoma de; Mé[email protected], Jesús Alvarado-Ortega~Universidad Nacional Autónoma de (2016-12-12). "Eekaulostomus cuevasae gen. and sp. nov., an ancient armored trumpetfish (Aulostomoidea) from Danian (Paleocene) marine deposits of Belisario Domínguez, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico". Palaeontologia Electronica. doi:10.26879/682. Retrieved 2025-12-24.
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