Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-19-31-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-19-31-2016
Research article
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18 Jan 2016
Research article |  | 18 Jan 2016

New remarkable Late Jurassic teleosts from southern Germany: Ascalaboidae n. fam., its content, morphology, and phylogenetic relationships

G. Arratia

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Complete morphological descriptions of exceptionally beautifully preserved Late Jurassic fishes from Bavaria (e.g., Ettling and Eichsttät), southern Germany, are provided for a new genus and species, which is endemic of Ettling and for a new family, Ascalaboidae. The new family is only known from marine Upper Jurassic localities of Europe and is interpreted as an extinct and primitive group of Teleostei, which is considered the largest group within osteichthyans (bony fishes).
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