en.unionpedia.org

Protosphyraena, the Glossary

Protosphyraena is a fossil genus of swordfish-like marine fish, that thrived worldwide during the Upper Cretaceous Period (Coniacian-Maastrichtian).^[1]

52 relations: Alabama, Aquatic animal, Arthur Smith Woodward, Asia, Barracuda, Campanian, Cenomanian, Coniacian, Convergent evolution, Cretaceous, Dinosaur, Edward Drinker Cope, England, Europe, Extinction, Fauna, Fish fin, Fluid dynamics, Fossil, Genus, Geological formation, Geologist, Gideon Mantell, Iguanodon, Joseph Leidy, Kansas, Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian, Mesozoic, Mooreville Chalk, Mosasaur, Natural history, New Jersey, Niobrara Formation, North America, Ossification, Othniel Charles Marsh, Pachycormiformes, Paleontology, Plesiosaur, Predation, Reptile, Rostrum (anatomy), Sailfish, Scavenger, Smoky Hill Chalk, Species, Swordfish, Taxon, Taxonomy (biology), ... Expand index (2 more) »
Coniacian genus first appearances
Demopolis Chalk
Late Cretaceous fish of North America
Pachycormiformes

Alabama

Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

See Protosphyraena and Alabama

Aquatic animal

An aquatic animal is any animal, whether vertebrate or invertebrate, that lives in water for all or most of its lifetime.

See Protosphyraena and Aquatic animal

Arthur Smith Woodward

Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, FRS (23 May 1864 – 2 September 1944) was an English palaeontologist, known as a world expert in fossil fish.

See Protosphyraena and Arthur Smith Woodward

Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

See Protosphyraena and Asia

Barracuda

A barracuda is a large, predatory, ray-finned fish known for its fearsome appearance and ferocious behaviour.

See Protosphyraena and Barracuda

Campanian

The Campanian is the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous Epoch on the geologic timescale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).

See Protosphyraena and Campanian

The Cenomanian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series.

See Protosphyraena and Cenomanian

Coniacian

The Coniacian is an age or stage in the geologic timescale.

See Protosphyraena and Coniacian

Convergent evolution

Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time.

See Protosphyraena and Convergent evolution

Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

See Protosphyraena and Cretaceous

Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

See Protosphyraena and Dinosaur

Edward Drinker Cope

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

See Protosphyraena and Edward Drinker Cope

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

See Protosphyraena and England

Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

See Protosphyraena and Europe

Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.

See Protosphyraena and Extinction

Fauna

Fauna (faunae or faunas) is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time.

See Protosphyraena and Fauna

Fish fin

Fins are moving appendages protruding from the body of fish that interact with water to generate thrust and help the fish swim.

See Protosphyraena and Fish fin

Fluid dynamics

In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids—liquids and gases.

See Protosphyraena and Fluid dynamics

Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

See Protosphyraena and Fossil

Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

See Protosphyraena and Genus

Geological formation

A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exposed in a geographical region (the stratigraphic column).

See Protosphyraena and Geological formation

Geologist

A geologist is a scientist who studies the structure, composition, and history of Earth.

See Protosphyraena and Geologist

Gideon Mantell

Gideon Algernon Mantell MRCS FRS (3 February 1790 – 10 November 1852) was an English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist.

See Protosphyraena and Gideon Mantell

Iguanodon

Iguanodon (meaning 'iguana-tooth'), named in 1825, is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur.

See Protosphyraena and Iguanodon

Joseph Leidy

Joseph Mellick Leidy (September 9, 1823 – April 30, 1891) was an American paleontologist, parasitologist and anatomist.

See Protosphyraena and Joseph Leidy

Kansas

Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

See Protosphyraena and Kansas

Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.

See Protosphyraena and Late Cretaceous

Maastrichtian

The Maastrichtian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) geologic timescale, the latest age (uppermost stage) of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series, the Cretaceous Period or System, and of the Mesozoic Era or Erathem.

See Protosphyraena and Maastrichtian

Mesozoic

The Mesozoic Era is the penultimate era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.

See Protosphyraena and Mesozoic

Mooreville Chalk

The Mooreville Chalk is a geological formation in North America, within the U.S. states of Alabama and Mississippi, which were part of the subcontinent of Appalachia.

See Protosphyraena and Mooreville Chalk

Mosasaur

Mosasaurs (from Latin Mosa meaning the 'Meuse', and Greek σαύρος sauros meaning 'lizard') are an extinct group of large aquatic reptiles within the family Mosasauridae that lived during the Late Cretaceous.

See Protosphyraena and Mosasaur

Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

See Protosphyraena and Natural history

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.

See Protosphyraena and New Jersey

Niobrara Formation

The Niobrara Formation, also called the Niobrara Chalk, is a geologic formation in North America that was deposited between 87 and 82 million years ago during the Coniacian, Santonian, and Campanian stages of the Late Cretaceous.

See Protosphyraena and Niobrara Formation

North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

See Protosphyraena and North America

Ossification

Ossification (also called osteogenesis or bone mineralization) in bone remodeling is the process of laying down new bone material by cells named osteoblasts.

See Protosphyraena and Ossification

Othniel Charles Marsh

Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 – March 18, 1899) was an American professor of Paleontology in Yale College and President of the National Academy of Sciences.

See Protosphyraena and Othniel Charles Marsh

Pachycormiformes

Pachycormiformes is an extinct order of marine ray-finned fish known from the Early Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous.

See Protosphyraena and Pachycormiformes

Paleontology

Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

See Protosphyraena and Paleontology

Plesiosaur

The Plesiosauria (Greek: πλησίος, plesios, meaning "near to" and ''sauros'', meaning "lizard") or plesiosaurs are an order or clade of extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the Sauropterygia.

See Protosphyraena and Plesiosaur

Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.

See Protosphyraena and Predation

Reptile

Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.

See Protosphyraena and Reptile

Rostrum (anatomy)

Rostrum (from Latin rostrum, meaning beak) is a term used in anatomy for a number of phylogenetically unrelated structures in different groups of animals.

See Protosphyraena and Rostrum (anatomy)

Sailfish

The sailfish is one of two species of marine fish in the genus Istiophorus, which belong to the family Istiophoridae (marlins).

See Protosphyraena and Sailfish

Scavenger

Scavengers are animals that consume dead organisms that have died from causes other than predation or have been killed by other predators.

See Protosphyraena and Scavenger

Smoky Hill Chalk

The Smoky Hill Chalk Member of the Niobrara Chalk formation is a Cretaceous conservation Lagerstätte, or fossil rich geological formation, known primarily for its exceptionally well-preserved marine reptiles.

See Protosphyraena and Smoky Hill Chalk

Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

See Protosphyraena and Species

Swordfish

The swordfish (Xiphias gladius), also known as the broadbill in some countries, are large, highly migratory predatory fish characterized by a long, flat, pointed bill.

See Protosphyraena and Swordfish

Taxon

In biology, a taxon (back-formation from taxonomy;: taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

See Protosphyraena and Taxon

Taxonomy (biology)

In biology, taxonomy is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics.

See Protosphyraena and Taxonomy (biology)

United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

See Protosphyraena and United States

Vertebrate

Vertebrates are deuterostomal animals with bony or cartilaginous axial endoskeleton — known as the vertebral column, spine or backbone — around and along the spinal cord, including all fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

See Protosphyraena and Vertebrate

References

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

Also known as Protosphyraena gladius, Protosphyraena tenuis.

, United States, Vertebrate.

Protosphyraena, the Glossary

Table of Contents

See also

Coniacian genus first appearances

Demopolis Chalk

Late Cretaceous fish of North America

Pachycormiformes

References