Priscacara serrata

†Priscacara serrata

†Priscacara cypha holotype

†Priscacara dartonae holotype

†Priscacara oxyprion holotype

†Priscacara testudinaria holotype

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Eupercaria

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Eupercaria

Ordo: incertae sedis
Familia: Moronidae
Genus: †Priscacara
Species: †Priscacara serrata

Name

†Priscacara serrata Cope, 1877

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
  • †Priscacara cypha Cope, 1877
  • †Priscacara dartonae Eastman, 1917
  • †Priscacara oxyprion Cope, 1877
  • †Priscacara testudinaria Cope, 1877

Type material

†Priscacara serrata

• Holotype: AMNH: 11039 A&B (complete adult)
  • Repository: American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West, New York, New York, United States

†Priscacara cypha

• Holotype: USNM: 4042 (mostly complete adult)
  • Repository: Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

†Priscacara dartonae

• Holotype: USNM: 2381 (complete adult)
  • Repository: Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Type locality

• Eocene, Ypresian; Green River Formation, Fossil Lake, Fossil Butte Member; Lincoln County, Wyoming, United States

Etymology

• none given

Distribution

Eocene

• Ypresian
  • Green River Formation, Fossil Lake, Fossil Butte Member; Lincoln County, Wyoming, United States
  • Green River Formation, Lake Unita, Manti Member; Near Manti, Sanpete County, Utah, United States

References

Primary references

• Cope, E.D. 1877. A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Ichthyological Fauna of the Green River Shales. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories 3(34): 807-819.  BHL Reference page. 
• Cope, E.D. (1884). Hayden, F.V. (ed.). The vertebrata of the Tertiary formations of the West (PDF). Vol. III. pp. 1–1009. doi:10.3133/70038954. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help) Reference page. 
• Grande,, L. 1984. Paleontology of the Green River Formation, with a review of the fish fauna (Second edition). Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Wyoming (63): 1–333. https://npshistory.com/publications/fobu/gsw-bul-63.pdf. 

Reference page. 

Additional references

• Eastman, C.R. 1917. Fossil fishes in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 52(2177): 235–304.Reference page. 
• Grande, L. (2001). "An updated review of the fish faunas from the Green River Formation, the world's most productive freshwater lagerstätten". In Gunnell, G.F. (ed.). Eocene biodiversity: unusual occurrences and rarely sampled habitats. Boston, MA: Springer. pp. 1–38. ISBN 978-1-4613-5471-0. Reference page. 
• Grande, L. (2013). The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time. University of Chicago Press; Illustrated edition. p. 1-499. ISBN 9780226922966. Reference page. 
• Whitlock, J.A. 2010. Phylogenetic relationships of the Eocene percomorph fishes †Priscacara and †Mioplosus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(4): 1037–1048. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.483534.  Reference page.