Clupeopsis and Pseudoasthenocormus

Pseudoasthenocormus retrodorsalis (Eastman 1914; Late Jurassic; BSPG 1956 I 361, 1.5m) was originally considered a pachycormiform. Here Pseudoasthenocormus nests basal to fanged extinct predators and extant Hydrolycus, the dogtooth characin, from the Amazon.

Clupeopsis straeleni (Casier 1946; Capobianco et al. 2020; Eocene; 50mya; MRHNB IG 8630; 30+cm long) is a large extinct anchovy with a single vomer fang and a dentary full of large spiky teeth.

Capobianco A, Beckett HT, Steurbaut E, Gingerich PD, Carnevale G, Friedman M 2020. Large-bodied sabre-toothed anchovies reveal unanticipated ecological diversity in early Palaeogene teleosts. Royal Society Open Science 7: 192260.

Casier E 1946. La faune ichthyologique de l’Yprésien de la Belgique. Mémoires du Musée
Royal d’Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 104, 1–267.

Eastman CR 1914. Catalog of the fossil fishes in the Carnegie Museum. Part IV. Descriptive catalog of fossil fishes from the Lithographic Stone of Solenhofen, Bavaria. – Mem. Carnegie Mus. 6 (7): 389-423.

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