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Hulettia
Description | Hulettia is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish found in the Morrison Formation in the western United States, measuring approximately three to four inches in length. This fish genus contains one species, H. americana. Its body was covered in thick prominent scales, and its name is based on Hulett, Wyoming, a locale which is near the Morrison Formation. Discovered specimens show evidence of predation upon the smaller species of fish Todiltia that inhabited the Jurassic Lake Todilto, and another specimen discovered in the Bathonian coastal sandstone, in the Sundance Formation of South Dakota. Both specimens are complete skeletons with no fragmentary remains or dubious anomalies amongst the bones recovered. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulettia, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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Source Data |
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Rank | genus | |||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Actinopterygii : Hulettia | |||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
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Scientific Name | Hulettia Schaeffer & Patterson, 1984 | |||||||
Name Published In | American Mus. Novit. No. 2796 | |||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulettia |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Pholidophorus americanus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
References
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
American Mus. Novit. No. 2796 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!