Jefitchia
genus of fishes
Jefitchia is an extinct genus of prehistoric drumfish that lived from the Eocene to the Oligocene. Fossils have been found in Texas, Louisiana, and Portugal.
It contains three species:
- †Jefitchia claybornensis Koken, 1888
- †Jefitchia copelandi Frizzell & Dante, 1965 (type species)
- †Jefitchia spinosa Jonet, 1979
References change
- "†Jefitchia claybornensis Koken 1888 (ray-finned fish)". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
- "†Jefitchia copelandi Frizzell and Dante 1965 (ray-finned fish)". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
Further reading change
- Mateus, Octávio; Estraviz López, Darío; Mateus, Simao (2022). "Type specimens alone have a strong correlation with taxa record by geological epoch: the case study of the fossil vertebrates named from Portuguese types". Comunicações Geológicas. 109: 57–64.
- Jun A. Ebersole; David J. Cicimurri & Gary L. Stringer (2019). "Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths". European Journal of Taxonomy.
Other websites change
- Jefitchia on English Wikipedia