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Cretatriacanthus

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Cretatriacanthus
Temporal range: Late Campanian/Early Maastrichtian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Cretatriacanthidae
Genus: Cretatriacanthus
Tyler & Sorbini, 1996[1]
Species:
C. guidottii
Binomial name
Cretatriacanthus guidottii
Tyler & Sorbini, 1996

Cretatriacanthus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish from the Late Cretaceous. It contains a single species, C. guidottii from the late Campanian or early Maastrichtian of Nardò, Italy.[2] It is generally placed as a basal tetraodontiform,[3][4] although more recent studies have disputed this, finding it to instead represent an early basal percomorph (under an expanded treatment of Acanthuriformes).[5]

It can be distinguished by its tall dorsal fin of elongated spines, which shows similarities to that of the modern genus Triacanthus. Spines are also present on its pelvic fins.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Tyler, James C.; Sorbini, Lorenzo (1996). "New Superfamily and Three New Families of Tetraodontiform Fishes from the Upper Cretaceous: The Earliest and Most Morphologically Primitive Plectognaths" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 82 (82): 1–59. doi:10.5479/si.00810266.82.1.
  2. ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-06-21.
  3. ^ Santini, Francesco; Tyler, James C. (2003). "A phylogeny of the families of fossil and extant tetraodontiform fishes (Acanthomorpha, Tetraodontiformes), Upper Cretaceous to Recent". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 139 (4): 565–617. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2003.00088.x. ISSN 1096-3642.
  4. ^ Arcila, Dahiana; Alexander Pyron, R.; Tyler, James C.; Ortí, Guillermo; Betancur-R., Ricardo (2015). "An evaluation of fossil tip-dating versus node-age calibrations in tetraodontiform fishes (Teleostei: Percomorphaceae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 82: 131–145. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.10.011. ISSN 1055-7903.
  5. ^ Near, Thomas J.; Thacker, Christine E. (2024-04-18). "Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii)". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 65 (1). doi:10.3374/014.065.0101. ISSN 0079-032X.