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Dercetis triqueter

Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Dercetidae

Taxonomy
Dercetis triqueter was named by Pictet (1850). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Sach el Aalma (Boissier collection), which is in a Santonian carbonate lime mudstone in Lebanon.

It was recombined as Leptotrachelus triqueter by Pictet and Humbert (1866), Davis (1887) and Woodward (1901); it was recombined as Benthesikyme triqueter by Alvarado-Ortega and Díaz-Cruz (2021).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1850Dercetis tenuis Pictet p. 46 figs. Pl 9, figs 1-4
1850Dercetis linguifer Pictet p. 47 figs. Pl 9, figs 7,8
1850Dercetis triqueter Pictet p. 47 figs. Pl 9, figs 5,6
1866Dercetis linguifer Pictet and Humbert p. 95
1866Leptotrachelus triqueter Pictet and Humbert p. 95 figs. Pl 14, figs 1,2
1887Leptotrachelus triqueter Davis p. 620 figs. Pl 38, fig 1
1887Dercetis linguifer Davis p. 624
1901Leptotrachelus triqueter Woodward p. 174
1969Dercetis triqueter Goody p. 52 fig. 22,23
2015Dercetis triqueter Taverne and Goolaerts
2021Benthesikyme triqueter Alvarado-Ortega and Díaz-Cruz p. 2
2021Dercetis tenuis Alvarado-Ortega and Díaz-Cruz p. 2
2023Dercetis triqueter Chida et al. p. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
superclassActinopterygii()
classActinopteri()
subclassNeopterygii(Regan 1923)
—Teleosteomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Teleostei(Müller 1846)
—Teleocephalade Pinna 1996
—ClupeocephalaPatterson and Rosen 1977
—Euteleosteomorpha
—NeoteleosteiRosen 1973
—Eurypterygia(Rosen 1973)
—Aulopa
orderAulopiformesRosen 1973
suborderIchthyotringoideiGoody 1969
familyDercetidaeCope
genusDercetis
speciestriqueter

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.

†Dercetis triqueter Pictet 1850
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Invalid names: Dercetis linguifer Pictet 1850 [synonym], Dercetis tenuis Pictet 1850 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Created: 2009-07-20 20:54:50
Modified: 2009-07-20 22:54:50
Source: o = order, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Santonian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 85.80000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Santonian85.8 - 83.5Lebanon Dercetis linguifer, Dercetis triqueter, Dercetis tenuis (type locality: 221187)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Belgium (Liege) Dercetis triqueter (32148)