Anaethalion is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine and freshwater ray-finned fish related to modern tarpons and ladyfish. It is known from the Late Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous of Europe and northeasterrn Asia (Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Russia), roughly encompassing the Tethys Ocean.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Elopiformes |
| Genus: | †Anaethalion White, 1938 |
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It is the earliest known member of the Elopiformes and the Elopomorpha in general.[3] The earliest known species are marine, but later species are found in freshwater habitats.
The following species are known:[1]
- A. macrorhynchus (Eichwald, 1846) (Aptian of Siberia)
- A. knorri (Blainville, 1818) (Kimmeridgian of Germany)
- A. valdensis (Woodward, 1907) (Berriasian-Hauterivian of England)
- A. zapporum Arratia, 2000 (Kimmeridgian of Germany)
An undescribed species is known from the Albian of Italy. The genus Aethalionopsis was previously considered synonymous with Anaethalion, but is now known to be a fossil relative of the milkfish. Some authorities place some of its species (A. valdensis and the undescribed Italian species) with Aethalionopsis instead.[1][4][5]
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References edit
- ^ a b c "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-16.
- ^ Alves, Yuri Modesto; Alvarado-Ortega, Jesús; Brito, Paulo M. (2020-06-01). "†Epaelops martinezi gen. and sp. nov. from the Albian limestone deposits of the Tlayúa quarry, Mexico – A new late Mesozoic record of Elopiformes of the western Tethys". Cretaceous Research. 110: 104260. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104260. ISSN 0195-6671.
- ^ Near, Thomas J; Thacker, Christine E (18 April 2024). "Phylogenetic classification of living and fossil ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 65. doi:10.3374/014.065.0101.
- ^ Fara, Emmanuel; Gayet, Mireille; Taverne, Louis (2010-01-01), "The Fossil Record of Gonorynchiformes" (PDF), Gonorynchiformes and Ostariophysan Relationships, CRC Press, pp. 173–226, doi:10.1201/b10194-6, ISBN 978-0-429-06156-1, retrieved 2024-02-06
- ^ Taverne, Louis (1981). "Ostéologie et position systématique d'Aethalionopsis robustus (Pisces, Teleostei) du Crétacé inférieur de Bernissart (Belgique) considérations sur les affinités des Gonorhynchiformes". Bulletins de l'Académie Royale de Belgique. 67 (1): 958–982. doi:10.3406/barb.1981.57174.
- Arratia, GF, "Anaethalion and similar teleosts (Actinopterygii, Pisces) from the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) of southern Germany and their relationships", Palaeontographica Abteilung A Palaeozoologie-Stratigraphie, vol. 200, issue 1–3, pp. 1–44. ISSN 0375-0442.
- Poyato-Ariza, Francisco José, "The elopiform fish Anaethalion angustus restored, with comments on individual variation", Mesozoic Fishes 2 – Systematics and Fossil Record, G. Arratia & H.-P. Schultze (eds.): pp. 361–36. ISBN 3-931516-48-2.
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