An Entity of Type: Thing, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Redfieldiiformes is an extinct order of ray-finned fish (actinopterygians) which lived from the Middle Triassic to Early Jurassic. Redfieldiiforms were fairly typical Triassic fish in overall anatomy. They had a fusiform (streamlined, tuna-like) body shape with thick, ganoine-covered scales. The dorsal and anal fins were large, positioned opposite from each other, and shifted back, close to the tail. The caudal fin was hemiheterocercal, with the vertebral column and body scales extending into an upper lobe which was equal in size and shape to the lower lobe. They also had several characteristic skeletal traits, such as a hatchet-shaped preopercle, a series of fulcra (thin spiny scales) fringing the fins, a reduced number of branchiostegal rays (typically just one), and a snout ornamented w

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Redfieldiiformes is an extinct order of ray-finned fish (actinopterygians) which lived from the Middle Triassic to Early Jurassic. Redfieldiiforms were fairly typical Triassic fish in overall anatomy. They had a fusiform (streamlined, tuna-like) body shape with thick, ganoine-covered scales. The dorsal and anal fins were large, positioned opposite from each other, and shifted back, close to the tail. The caudal fin was hemiheterocercal, with the vertebral column and body scales extending into an upper lobe which was equal in size and shape to the lower lobe. They also had several characteristic skeletal traits, such as a hatchet-shaped preopercle, a series of fulcra (thin spiny scales) fringing the fins, a reduced number of branchiostegal rays (typically just one), and a snout ornamented with tubercles. The maxilla has small teeth and is strongly connected to the preopercle; this would have allowed a deep gape to assist in ram feeding. The function of the snout tubercles is uncertain; some authors have suggested that they attached to a fleshy upper lip, while others argue that they could have held sensory organs akin to the tubercles of siluriforms (catfish). Redfieldiiforms were fairly primitive 'subholostean' fish (more primitive than holosteans such as gars or the bowfin), with uncertain relations to neopterygians. Some studies draw comparisons to 'perleidiforms' or ptycholepids, while others consider redfieldiiforms to be early neopterygians related to pholidopleuriforms. Redfieldiiforms were exclusively freshwater fish which became prominent in southern Gondwana (Argentina, Australia, southern Africa) during the Middle Triassic. By the Late Triassic they had become a major component of freshwater ecosystems in western Laurasia (North America and Morocco), though they were much rarer further east (South Korea, possibly Switzerland). The last member of the order, , lived in the Early Jurassic of eastern North America. (en)
  • I redfieldiiformi (Redfieldiiformes) sono un gruppo di pesci ossei estinti, appartenenti agli attinotterigi. Vissero tra il Triassico inferiore e il Giurassico inferiore (circa 250 - 190 milioni di anni fa) e i loro resti fossili sono stati ritrovati in Nordamerica, Sudamerica, Australia, Africa, Asia e forse Madagascar ed Europa. (it)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 68838784 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 5946 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1111174187 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:authority
  • Berg, 1940 (en)
dbp:imageCaption
  • Dictyopyge macrurus from the Late Triassic of Virginia (en)
dbp:subdivision
  • See text (en)
dbp:subdivisionRanks
  • Genera (en)
dbp:taxon
  • Redfieldiiformes (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdfs:comment
  • I redfieldiiformi (Redfieldiiformes) sono un gruppo di pesci ossei estinti, appartenenti agli attinotterigi. Vissero tra il Triassico inferiore e il Giurassico inferiore (circa 250 - 190 milioni di anni fa) e i loro resti fossili sono stati ritrovati in Nordamerica, Sudamerica, Australia, Africa, Asia e forse Madagascar ed Europa. (it)
  • Redfieldiiformes is an extinct order of ray-finned fish (actinopterygians) which lived from the Middle Triassic to Early Jurassic. Redfieldiiforms were fairly typical Triassic fish in overall anatomy. They had a fusiform (streamlined, tuna-like) body shape with thick, ganoine-covered scales. The dorsal and anal fins were large, positioned opposite from each other, and shifted back, close to the tail. The caudal fin was hemiheterocercal, with the vertebral column and body scales extending into an upper lobe which was equal in size and shape to the lower lobe. They also had several characteristic skeletal traits, such as a hatchet-shaped preopercle, a series of fulcra (thin spiny scales) fringing the fins, a reduced number of branchiostegal rays (typically just one), and a snout ornamented w (en)
rdfs:label
  • Redfieldiiformes (en)
  • Redfieldiiformes (it)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License