Melanosteus

Melanomontanosteus
Temporal range: Late Devonian
Life restoration of Melanomontanosteus occitanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
†Placodermi
Order:
†Arthrodira
Suborder:
†Brachythoraci
Family:
†Selenosteidae
Genus:
†Melanomontanosteus

Prokofiev, 2023[1]
Type species
†Melanomontanosteus occitanus
(Lelièvre & Goujet in Lelièvre, Feist, Goujet, & Blieck, 1987)[2]
Synonyms
Genus synonymy
    • Melanosteus
      Lelièvre & Goujet in Lelièvre, Feist, Goujet, & Blieck, 1987 (preoccupied by Melanosteus Eisenack, 1942)[3]
Species synonymy
    • Melanosteus occitanus
      Lelièvre & Goujet in Lelièvre, Feist, Goujet, & Blieck, 1987

Melanomontanosteus is an extinct genus of selenosteid placoderm that lived during the Late Devonian. It contains one valid species, M. occitanus, known from fossils found in Southern France.

Taxonomy

Melanosteus occitanus was named by Hervé Lelièvre and Daniel Goujet in 1987 for a specimen from Montagne Noire consisting of the jaws and the cranial and thoracic armor.[2] However, that genus name was preoccupied by the melanosclerite Melanosteus.[3] In 2023, Artem M. Prokofiev proposed Melanomontanosteus as a replacement name.[1]

Phylogeny

Melanomontanosteus has been classified as a member of the family Selenosteidae since its original description.[2] Below is a simplified cladogram based on the results of Jobbins et al. (2022).[4]

Brachythoraci

References

  1. ^ a b Prokofiev, A.M. (2023). "Replacing two fossil vertebrate names, currently preoccupied (Placodermi and Mammalia)". Munis Entomology & Zoology. 18 (1): 696–697.
  2. ^ a b c Lelièvre, H.; Fiest, R.; Goujet, D.; Blieck, A. (1987). "Les vertébres dévoniens de la Montagne Noire (Sud de la France) et leur apport à la phylogénie des pachyosteomorphes (Placodermes Arthrodires)". Palaeovertebrata. 17 (1): 1–26.
  3. ^ a b Eisenack, A. (1942). "Die Melanoskleritoiden, eine neue Gruppe silurischer Mikrofossilien aus dem Unterstamm der Nesseltiere". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 23 (1–2): 157–180. Bibcode:1942PalZ...23..157E. doi:10.1007/BF03184419.
  4. ^ Jobbins, M.; Rücklin, M.; Ferrón, H.G.; Klug, C. (2022). "A new selenosteid placoderm from the Late Devonian of the eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco) with preserved body outline and its ecomorphology". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10: 969158. doi:10.3389/fevo.2022.969158. hdl:10550/85583.