Cryptoberyx

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|95|93.5|Late Cenomanian<ref name="sepkoskidb">{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |accessdate=2009-02-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2011-07-23 }}</ref>}} | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Cryptoberyx | authority = Gaudant, 1978 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * †''C. brevis'' Gaudant, 1978 * †''C. minimus'' Gaudant, 1978 }}

'''''Cryptoberyx''''' is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the late Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous.<ref name="sepkoskidb"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=PBDB Taxon |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35782 |access-date=2024-06-26 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Gaudant |first=Mireille |date=1978-01-01 |title=Implications taxonomiques du caractere composite de l'hypodigme du genre Lissoberyx Patterson (poisson teleosteen, beryciforme): Creation du genre Cryptoberyx |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016699578800126 |journal=Geobios |volume=11 |issue=5 |pages=787–791 |doi=10.1016/S0016-6995(78)80012-6 |issn=0016-6995|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Two species are known from southern Europe and the Middle East, both part of the former Tethys Sea.

The following species are known:<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Amalfitano |first1=Jacopo |last2=Giusberti |first2=Luca |last3=Fornaciari |first3=Eliana |last4=Carnevale |first4=Giorgio |date=2020-04-03 |title=UPPER CENOMANIAN FISHES FROM THE BONARELLI LEVEL (OAE2) OF NORTHEASTERN ITALY |url=https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/13224 |journal=Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia |language=en |volume=126 |issue=2 |doi=10.13130/2039-4942/13224 |issn=2039-4942}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Murray |first=Alison M. |date=2014 |title=Mid-Cretaceous acanthomorph fishes with the description of a new species from the Turonian of Lac des Bois, Northwest Territories, Canada |url=https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.php/VAMP/article/view/25439 |journal=Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology |language=en |volume=1 |pages=101–115 |doi=10.18435/B5CC78 |issn=2292-1389|doi-access=free }}</ref>

* †'''''C. minimus''''' Gaudant, 1978 (type species) - Cenomanian of Lebanon (Sannine Formation)<ref name=":0" /> * †'''''C. brevis''''' Gaudant, 1978 - Cenomanian of Portugal

The holotype of ''C. minimus'' was initially used by Arthur Smith Woodward as a paratype of ''Lissoberyx dayi'', until later studies found it to represent a different genus entirely.<ref name=":0" />

''Cryptoberyx'' was previously considered a beryciform under a former paraphyletic view of the order (which also included the Trachichthyiformes and Holocentriformes), as a stem-group "trachichthyoid".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Patterson |first=Colin |date=1993-01-01 |title=An Overview of the Early Fossil Record of Acanthomorphs |url=https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/umrsmas/bullmar/1993/00000052/00000001/art00003 |journal=Bulletin of Marine Science |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=29–59}}</ref> With the splitting of these two orders, its taxonomic identity is unclear.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Alvarado-Ortega |first=Jesús |last2=Than-Marchese |first2=Bruno Andrés |date=2013 |title=The first record of a North American Cenomanian Trachichthyidae fish (Acanthomorpha, Acanthopterygii), Pepemkay maya, gen. et sp. nov., from El Chango Quarry (Sierra Madre Formation), Chiapas, Mexico |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2012.712585 |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |language=en |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=48–57 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2012.712585 |issn=0272-4634|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==See also== {{Portal|Paleontology|Fish}} * Prehistoric fish * List of prehistoric bony fish

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Acanthopterygii Category:Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Category:Late Cretaceous bony fish Category:Late Cretaceous fish of Asia Category:Cretaceous fish of Europe Category:Cenomanian genera Category:Fossils of Lebanon Category:Fossils of Portugal Category:Fossil taxa described in 1978