# Beckius

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{{Short description|Fossil genus of fishes}}
{{Speciesbox
| fossil_range = {{fossil range|33|32|[Early Oligocene](/source/Early_Oligocene)}}
| parent_authority = David, 1946
| display_parents = 2
| taxon = Beckius plicatus
| authority = David, 1946
}}

'''''Beckius''''' is an extinct genus of marine [whitefish](/source/freshwater_whitefish) known from the [Early Oligocene](/source/Rupelian)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=E. R. Atwill (2) |date=1935 |title=Oligocene Tumey Formation of California |url=http://search.datapages.com/data/doi/10.1306/3D932D52-16B1-11D7-8645000102C1865D |journal=AAPG Bulletin |language=en |volume=19 |doi=10.1306/3D932D52-16B1-11D7-8645000102C1865D |issn=0149-1423|url-access=subscription }}</ref> of [California](/source/California). It contains a single species, '''''B. plicatus''''', known only from a single fossilized scale from the [Tumey Formation](/source/Tumey_Formation), a [lens](/source/Lens_(geology)) of the [Kreyenhagen Shale](/source/Kreyenhagen_Shale). The scale was found to resemble those of ''[Coregonus](/source/Coregonus)'', although significantly different in many ways, leading to its classification as a new genus of Coregoninae.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PBDB Taxon |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=364701&is_real_user=1 |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=David |first=Lorre R. |date=1946 |title=Some Typical Upper Eogene Fish Scales from California |url=https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/v03cm-86s21 |journal=Contributions to Paleontology |volume=IV}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Mineralienatlas - Fossilienatlas |url=https://www.mineralienatlas.de/lexikon/index.php/FossilData?lang=de&fossil=Beckius |access-date=2024-04-19 |website=www.mineralienatlas.de |language=de}}</ref> 

The genus name was later reused in 1992 for a [scarab beetle](/source/Scarabaeidae) from [New Guinea](/source/New_Guinea), until it was discovered to be preoccupied; the beetle was thus renamed ''[Debeckius](/source/Debeckius)''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Allsopp |first=Peter G |date=2022-07-01 |title=Replacement names for ''Beckius'' Dechambre, 1992 and Syrictes Prell, 1936, and validation of ''Neoryctes'' Arrow, 1908 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)  |journal=Zootaxa |volume=5165 |issue=2 |pages=294–300 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.5165.2.9 |issn=1175-5334 |pmid=36095466}}</ref>

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Category:Fossil taxa described in 1946
Category:Rupelian genera
Category:Fossils of California
Category:Monotypic prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
Category:Oligocene fish
Category:Paleogene fish of North America

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