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Furo orthostomus

Ionoscopiformes - Furidae

Taxonomy
Eugnathus orthostomus was named by Agassiz (1842). Its type specimen is BMNH P.465, a partial skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Lyme Regis, Egerton collection, which is in a Sinemurian marine horizon in the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Furo orthostomus by Antunes et al. (1981).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1842Eugnathus orthostomus Agassiz figs. Pl 57a
1843Eugnathus orthostomus Agassiz p. 98
1895Eugnathus orthostomus Woodward p. 291 figs. Pl. IV. fig. 1; Pl. V. fig. 1; fig 33, 34
1981Furo orthostomus Antunes et al. p. 106 fig. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
RankNameAuthor
Actinopterygii()
HalecostomiRegan 1903
Halecomorphi(Cope 1872)
orderIonoscopiformesGrande and Bemis 1998
familyFuridaeJordan 1923
genusFuroGistl 1848
speciesorthostomus()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Furo orthostomus Agassiz 1842
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2009-07-20 21:50:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:50:54
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Raricostatum to the top of the Sinemurian or 196.50000 to 190.80000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Sinemurian199.3 - 190.8United Kingdom (England) Eugnathus orthostomus (122153 type locality: 122154 122155)
Raricostatum196.5 - 189.6Portugal Furo orthostomus (127285)