Melanosteus

Melanomontanosteus
Temporal range: Late Devonian
Life restoration of Melanomontanosteus occitanus
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Melanomontanosteus

Prokofiev, 2023[1]
Type species
Melanomontanosteus occitanus
(Lelièvre & Goujet in Lelièvre, Feist, Goujet, & Blieck, 1987)[2]
Synonyms
Genus synonymy
    • Melanosteus
      Lelièvre & Goujet in Lelièvre, Feist, Goujet, & Blieck, 1987 (preoccupied by Melanosteus Eisenack, 1942)[3]
Species synonymy
    • Melanosteus occitanus
      Lelièvre & Goujet in Lelièvre, Feist, Goujet, & Blieck, 1987

Melanomontanosteus is an extinct genus of selenosteid placoderm that lived during the Late Devonian. It contains one valid species, M. occitanus, known from fossils found in Southern France.

Taxonomy

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Melanosteus occitanus was named by Hervé Lelièvre and Daniel Goujet in 1987 for a specimen from Montagne Noire consisting of the jaws and the cranial and thoracic armor.[2] However, that genus name was preoccupied by the melanosclerite Melanosteus.[3] In 2023, Artem M. Prokofiev proposed Melanomontanosteus as a replacement name.[1]

Phylogeny

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Melanomontanosteus has been classified as a member of the family Selenosteidae since its original description.[2] Below is a simplified cladogram based on the results of Jobbins et al. (2022).[4]

Brachythoraci

References

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  1. ^ a b Prokofiev, A.M. (2023). "Replacing two fossil vertebrate names, currently preoccupied (Placodermi and Mammalia)". Munis Entomology & Zoology. 18 (1): 696–697.
  2. ^ a b c Lelièvre, H.; Fiest, R.; Goujet, D.; Blieck, A. (1987). "Les vertébres dévoniens de la Montagne Noire (Sud de la France) et leur apport à la phylogénie des pachyosteomorphes (Placodermes Arthrodires)". Palaeovertebrata. 17 (1): 1–26.
  3. ^ a b Eisenack, A. (1942). "Die Melanoskleritoiden, eine neue Gruppe silurischer Mikrofossilien aus dem Unterstamm der Nesseltiere". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 23 (1–2): 157–180. Bibcode:1942PalZ...23..157E. doi:10.1007/BF03184419.
  4. ^ Jobbins, M.; Rücklin, M.; Ferrón, H.G.; Klug, C. (2022). "A new selenosteid placoderm from the Late Devonian of the eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco) with preserved body outline and its ecomorphology". Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10: 969158. doi:10.3389/fevo.2022.969158. hdl:10550/85583.