Bathysoma

Taxobox
name = "Bathysoma"
fossil_range= Danian


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Lampriformes
familia = "incertae sedis
genus = "Bathysoma"
species = "B. lutkeni"
species_authority = Davis, 1890

"Bathysoma lutkeni" is an extinct lamprid from the Danian epoch of Sweden, and is the second oldest lamprid known, after "Nardovelifer" of Campanian/Maastrichian Italy. "B. lutkeni" has a disk-shaped body and an elongated head. It was originally described as a menid bony fish. Later, it was described as being a basal snake mackerel/ [ [http://home.uchicago.edu/~mattf/Friedman_Johnson_2005.pdf] "A new species of Mene (Perciformes: Menidae) from the Paleocene of South America, with notes on paleoenvironment and a brief review of menid fishes."] . Eventually, anatomical similarities with the Turkmenids were noted, and "B. lutkeni" is now regarded as an extremely basal lamprid.

References

External links

* [http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=35828&is_real_user=1 "Bathysoma"] at the Paleobiology Database
* [http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/deuterostoma/chordata/actinopterygii/lampridiformes.html Lampridiformes]