Enischnorhynchus

Enischnorhynchus Temporal range: Late Santonian/Early Campanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	†Tselfatiiformes
Family:	†Plethodidae
Genus:	†Enischnorhynchus Bardack, 1965
Species:	†E. dallasensis
Binomial name
†Enischnorhynchus dallasensis Bardack, 1965

Enischorhynchus (Greek for "slender snout") is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Cretaceous. It contains a single species, E. dallasensis from the late Santonian or early Campanian-aged Austin Formation of southern Texas, USA.[1] It was a member of the Plethodidae, a dominant family of nektonic fish during the mid-late Cretaceous. It shows close morphological similarities and may be related to Concavotectum and Bachea.[2][3] It was likely an endemic of the southern Western Interior Seaway.[4]

See also

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish

References

1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
2. Cavin, Lionel; Forey, Peter L. (2008). "A new tselfatiiform teleost from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of the Kem Kem beds, Southern Morocco". Mesozoic Fishes 4 – Homology and Phylogeny. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil. ISBN 978-3-89937-080-5.
3. Cavin, Lionel; Boudad, Larbi; Tong, Haiyan; Läng, Emilie; Tabouelle, Jérôme; Vullo, Romain (2015-05-27). "Taxonomic Composition and Trophic Structure of the Continental Bony Fish Assemblage from the Early Late Cretaceous of Southeastern Morocco". PLOS ONE. 10 (5): e0125786. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1025786C. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0125786. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4446216. PMID 26018561.
4. Shimada, Kenshu (2016-06-01). "A new species of the Late Cretaceous 'sail-finned' bony fish, Pentanogmius (Actinopterygii: Tselfatiiformes), from Texas, USA". Cretaceous Research. 61: 188–198. Bibcode:2016CrRes..61..188S. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.12.019. ISSN 0195-6671.