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Diplomystus, the Glossary

Index Diplomystus

Diplomystus is an extinct genus of freshwater clupeomorph fish distantly related to modern-day extant herrings, alewives, and sardines.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 7 relations: Clupeiformes, Edward Drinker Cope, Eocene, Green River Formation, Knightia, Valanginian, Wyoming.

  2. Clupeiformes
  3. Early Cretaceous fish of Asia
  4. Freshwater fish
  5. Green River Formation
  6. Natural history of Wyoming
  7. Prehistoric fish of North America
  8. Priabonian genus extinctions
  9. Valanginian genus first appearances

Clupeiformes

Clupeiformes is the order of ray-finned fish that includes the herring family, Clupeidae, and the anchovy family, Engraulidae.

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Edward Drinker Cope

Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897) was an American zoologist, paleontologist, comparative anatomist, herpetologist, and ichthyologist.

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Eocene

The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).

See Diplomystus and Eocene

Green River Formation

The Green River Formation is an Eocene geologic formation that records the sedimentation in a group of intermountain lakes in three basins along the present-day Green River in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah.

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Knightia

Knightia is an extinct genus of clupeid bony fish that lived in the freshwater lakes and rivers of North America and Asia during the Eocene epoch. Diplomystus and Knightia are Green River Formation.

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Valanginian

In the geologic timescale, the Valanginian is an age or stage of the Early or Lower Cretaceous.

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Wyoming

Wyoming is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

See Diplomystus and Wyoming

See also

Clupeiformes

Early Cretaceous fish of Asia

Freshwater fish

Green River Formation

Natural history of Wyoming

Prehistoric fish of North America

Priabonian genus extinctions

Valanginian genus first appearances

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomystus

Also known as Diplomystus birdii, Diplomystus dentatsus, Diplomystus dentatus.