Aramichthys
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scombriformes |
| Family: | Scombridae |
| Genus: | †Aramichthys Signeux, 1959 |
| Species: | †A. dammeseki
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| †Aramichthys dammeseki Signeux, 1959
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Aramichthys ("Aram fish") is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine scombrid fish that lived during the middle division of the Eocene epoch.[2][1][3] It contains a single species, A. dammeseki ("of Damascus") from Syria. Its remains were recovered from a chalk-marl quarry in the vicinity of Dummar.[2][4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ a b Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France); naturelle (France), Muséum national d'histoire (1959). Notes et mémoires sur le Moyen-Orient. Vol. t.7 (1959). Paris: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.
- ^ "Scombridae". www.mv.helsinki.fi. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
- ^ Zouhri, Samir; Khalloufi, Bouziane; Bourdon, Estelle; Broin, France De Lapparent De; Rage, Jean-Claude; M'haïdrat, Leila; Gingerich, Philip D.; Elboudali, Najia (2018). "Marine vertebrate fauna from the late Eocene Samlat Formation of Ad-Dakhla, southwestern Morocco". Geological Magazine. 155 (7): 1596–1620. doi:10.1017/S0016756817000759. ISSN 0016-7568.
- ^ Zouhri, Samir; Gingerich, Philip D.; Khalloufi, Bouziane; Bourdon, Estelle; Adnet, Sylvain; Jouve, Stéphane; Elboudali, Najia; Amane, Ayoub; Rage, Jean-Claude; Tabuce, Rodolphe; Broin, France De Lapparent De (2021). "Middle Eocene vertebrate fauna from the Aridal Formation, Sabkha of Gueran, southwestern Morocco". Geodiversitas. 43 (5): 121–150. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a5. ISSN 1280-9659.
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