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<h2 id="systematics">Systematics</h2> <p>The <a href="/facts/Basal_(evolution)/JQPQXpYg">basal</a> phylogeny is badly resolved, leading to many ichthyodectiforms that are simply known to be rather primitive, but where nothing certain can be said about their precise relationships. </p> <p>†Ichthyodectiformes<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p> <ul><li>†<i>Africathrissops</i> Taverne, 2010<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a></li> <li>†<i><a href="/facts/Allothrissops/P9t6mBDB">Allothrissops</a></i> Nybelin, 1964</li> <li>†<i>Antarctithrissops</i> Arratia <i>et al.</i>, 2004<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a></li> <li>†<i>Ascalabothrissops</i>? Arratia, 2000<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a></li> <li>†<i>Capassoichthys</i> Taverne, 2015<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a></li> <li>†<i><a href="/facts/Carsothrissops/56M6F0rw">Carsothrissops</a></i> d'Erasmo, 1946<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a></li> <li>†<i>Dugaldia</i> Lees, 1990</li> <li>†<i>Faugichthys</i> Taverne & Chanet, 2000</li> <li>†<i>Furloichthys</i> Taverne & Capasso, 2018<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a></li> <li>†<i><a href="/facts/Occithrissops/0NjGzhRK">Occithrissops</a></i> Schaeffer & Patterson, 1984</li> <li>†<i>Ogunichthys</i> Alvarado-Ortega & Brito, 2009</li> <li>†<i><a href="/facts/Pachythrissops/M3mqcKPW">Pachythrissops</a></i>? Woodward, 1919</li> <li>†<i><a href="/facts/Prymnetes/31C8Mq2Q">Prymnetes</a></i> Cope, 1871<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a></li> <li>†<i><a href="/facts/Thrissops/Vx8lFY9V">Thrissops</a></i> Agassiz, 1843</li> <li>†<i><a href="/facts/Sultanuvaisia/5v0QkooY">Sultanuvaisia</a></i> Nesov, 1981</li> <li>†<i>Unamichthys</i> Alvarado-Ortega, 2004</li> <li>†<i>Verraesichthys</i> Taverne, 2010</li> <li>†Chuhsiungichthyidae? Yabumoto, 1994<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a> <ul><li>†<i><a href="/facts/Chuhsiungichthys/gv8zJ9h4">Chuhsiungichthys</a></i>? Lew, 1974</li> <li>†<i><a href="/facts/Jinjuichthys/3TYeuzkH">Jinjuichthys</a></i>? Kim <i>et al.</i>, 2014</li> <li>†<i><a href="/facts/Mesoclupea/qv74AApP">Mesoclupea</a></i>? Ping & Yen, 1933</li></ul></li> <li>†Bardackichthyidae? Hacker & Shimada, 2021 <ul><li>†<i>Bardackichthys</i>? Hacker & Shimada, 2021<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a></li></ul></li> <li>†Cladocyclidae Maisey, 1991 <ul><li>†<i><a href="/facts/Aidachar/nJDRoUwj">Aidachar</a></i> Nesov, 1981<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a></li> <li>†<i><a href="/facts/Chirocentrites/qRq6frH8">Chirocentrites</a></i> Heckel, 1849</li> <li>†<i>Chiromystus</i> Cope, 1885</li> <li>†<i><a href="/facts/Cladocyclus/1mphCnbg">Cladocyclus</a></i> Agassiz, 1841</li> <li>†<i>Cladocynodon</i> de Mayrinck <i>et al.</i>, 2023<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a></li> <li>†<i><a href="/facts/Eubiodectes/PXN2cz48">Eubiodectes</a></i> Hay, 1903</li></ul></li> <li>†Ichthyodectidae Crook, 1892 <ul><li>†<i><a href="/facts/Cooyoo/w961meKA">Cooyoo</a></i> Bartholomai & Less, 1987</li> <li>†<i>Ghrisichthys</i> Cavin <i>et al.</i>, 2013</li> <li>†<i><a href="/facts/Ichthyodectes/2qrMbKxz">Ichthyodectes</a></i> Cope, 1870</li> <li>†<i><a href="/facts/Postredectes/kWtWQCRn">Postredectes</a></i> Kaddumi, 2009<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a></li> <li>†<i><a href="/facts/Xiphactinus/MA2zuApT">Xiphactinus</a></i> Leidy, 1870</li></ul></li> <li>†Heckelichthyidae Alvarado-Ortega, 2024<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a> <ul><li>†<i><a href="/facts/Altamuraichthys/gJRvrGT5">Altamuraichthys</a></i>? Taverne, 2016</li> <li>†<i><a href="/facts/Amakusaichthys/0A4EK20k">Amakusaichthys</a></i> Yabumoto <i>et al.</i>, 2020</li> <li>†<i>Garganoichthys</i>? Taverne, 2009</li> <li>†<i>Heckelichthys</i> Taverne, 2008</li></ul></li> <li>†Saurodontidae <a href="/facts/Edward_Drinker_Cope/Wup4Ic7k">Cope</a>, 1870<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24"><sup>24</sup></a> <ul><li>†<i><a href="/facts/Gillicus/v8DdnNmQ">Gillicus</a></i> Cope, 1875</li> <li>†<i><a href="/facts/Gwawinapterus/7yEfqbzY">Gwawinapterus</a></i> Arbour & Currie, 2011<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25"><sup>25</sup></a></li> <li>†<i>Prosaurodon</i> Stewart, 1999</li> <li>†<i><a href="/facts/Saurocephalus/9XKWpTSL">Saurocephalus</a></i> Harlan, 1824</li> <li>†<i><a href="/facts/Saurodon/271uMoHz">Saurodon</a></i> Hay, 1830</li> <li>†<i>Vallecillichthys</i> Blanco & Cavin, 2003</li></ul></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li> Media related to Ichthyodectiformes at Wikimedia Commons</li> <li> Data related to Ichthyodectiformes at Wikispecies</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Nelson, Joseph S.; Grande, Terry C.; Wilson, Mark V. H. (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781118342336. <a href="9781118342336" target="_blank">9781118342336</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Boles, Zachary; Ullmann, Paul; Putnam, Ian; Ford, Mariele; Deckhut, Joseph (2024). "New vertebrate microfossils expand the chondrichthyan and actinopterygian fauna of the Maastrichtian–Danian Hornerstown Formation in New Jersey". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 69. doi:10.4202/app.01117.2023. ISSN 0567-7920. <a href="https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01117.2023" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01117.2023</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Baños-Rodríguez, Rocio Elizabeth; González-Rodríguez, Katia Adriana; Wilson, Mark V. H.; González-Martínez, Jorge Alberto (2020-06-01). "A new species of Heckelichthys from the Muhi Quarry (Albian–Cenomanian) of central Mexico". Cretaceous Research. 110: 104415. 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Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39 (1): e1576049. Bibcode:2019JVPal..39E6049C. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1576049. S2CID 190880286. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Hacker, R. J.; Shimada, K. (2021). "A new ichthyodectiform fish (Actinopterygii: Teleostei) from the Arlington Member (mid-Cenomanian) of the Upper Cretaceous Woodbine Formation in Texas, USA". Cretaceous Research. 123: 104798. Bibcode:2021CrRes.12304798H. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104798. S2CID 233806833. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Taverne, L. (2010). "Les Ichthyodectidae (Teleostei, Ichthyodectiformes) des schistes bitumineux de TAptien (Crétacé inférieur) de Guinée Équatoriale et du Gabon" (PDF). 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Cretaceous Research. 29: 316–328. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2007.05.003. <a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008CrRes..29..316P" target="_blank">https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008CrRes..29..316P</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>Taverne, L.; Capasso, L. (2018). "Osteology and phylogenetic relationships of Furloichthys bonarellii gen. and sp. nov. (Teleostei, Ichthyodectidae), a tropical fish from the Upper Cretaceous of central Italy" (PDF). Geo-Eco-Trop. 42 (1): 75–88. <a href="https://geoecotrop.be/uploads/publications/pub_421_06.pdf" target="_blank">https://geoecotrop.be/uploads/publications/pub_421_06.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>Blanco-Piñón, A.; Alvarado-Ortega, J. (2007). "Review of Vallecillichthys multivertebratum (Teleostei: Ichthyodectiformes), a Late Cretaceous (early Turonian) "Bulldog fish" from northeastern Mexico" (PDF). Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas. 24 (3): 450–466. <a href="https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/572/57224312.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/572/57224312.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>Kim, H.; Chang, M.; Wu, F.; Kim, Y. (2014). "A new ichthyodectiform (Pisces, Teleostei) from the Lower Cretaceous of South Korea and its paleobiogeographic implication". Cretaceous Research. 47: 117–130. Bibcode:2014CrRes..47..117K. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2013.11.007. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:17"><p>Alvarado-Ortega, Jesús (2024-12-29). "Amakusaichthys benammii sp. nov., a Campanian long-nose ichthyodectiform fish from the Tzimol Quarry, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico". Palaeontologia Electronica. 27 (3): 1–37. doi:10.26879/1444. 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