Aluvarus
Aluvarus praeimperialis Temporal range: Rupelian | |
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Artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
Infraphylum: | Gnathostomata |
Superclass: | Osteichthyes |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | ?Perciformes |
Suborder: | ?Acanthuroidei |
Family: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | Aluvarus |
Species: | A. praeimperialis |
Binomial name | |
Aluvarus praeimperialis (Arambourg), 1967 | |
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Aluvarus praeimperialis is an extinct bony fish, known from two headless fossil specimens found in the Elam Formation, a Lower Oligocene stratum from the Rupelian epoch, of what is now Iran. A. praeimperialis was originally thought to be a luvar, described as "Luvarus praeimperialis," as it was thought to be a predecessor to the modern luvar. A later reexamination of the specimens showed that they were too incomplete to demonstrate such a conclusion, and were renamed "Aluvarus," meaning "Not" or "Different than Luvar."
See also
References
Bannikov, A, Tyler, J: "Phylogenetic Revision of the Fish Families Luvaridae and †Kushlukiidae (Acanthuroidei), with a New Genus and Two New Species of Eocene Luvarids"
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