{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{Fossil range|247|220|[[Anisian]]-[[Carnian]]<ref name="Romano et al 2016"/>}} | image = Dipteronotus aculeatus.jpg | image_caption = ''Dipteronotus aculeatus'' fossil<ref name=Jörg1969/> | taxon = Dipteronotus | authority = [[Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet|Egerton]], 1854 | type_species= {{extinct}}''Dipteronotus cyphus'' | type_species_authority = Egerton, 1854 | subdivision_ranks = Other species | subdivision = * {{extinct}}''D. aculeatus'' <small>(Jörg, 1969)</small> * {{extinct}}''D. gibbosus'' <small>Martin, 1980</small> * {{extinct}}''D. olgiatii'' <small>Tintori, 1990</small> | synonyms = * ''Praesemionotus'' <small>Jörg, 1969</small> }}
'''''Dipteronotus''''' is an [[extinct]] [[genus]] of marine [[stem group|stem]]-[[neopterygian]] [[Actinopterygii|ray-finned fish]] that existed during the [[Middle Triassic|Middle]] and [[Late Triassic]] [[epoch (geology)|epochs]] in what is now Europe (France, Germany, Italy, England) and Morocco.<ref name=Jörg1969>{{cite journal |last=Jörg |first=Erwin |title=Eine Fischfauna aus dem Oberen Buntsandstein (Unter-Trias) von Karlsruhe-Durlach (Nordbaden) |journal=Beiträge zur Naturkundlichen Forschung in Südwestdeutschland |volume=28 |pages=87–102 |url=https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Beitr-natukdl-Forsch-Suedwestdtschl_28_0087-0102.pdf |language=de}}</ref><ref name="Romano et al 2016">{{cite journal |last1=Romano |first1=Carlo |last2=Koot |first2=Martha B. |last3=Kogan |first3=Ilja |last4=Brayard |first4=Arnaud |last5=Minikh |first5=Alla V. |last6=Brinkmann |first6=Winand |last7=Bucher |first7=Hugo |last8=Kriwet |first8=Jürgen |date=2016 |title=Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269406596_Permian-Triassic_Osteichthyes_bony_fishes_diversity_dynamics_and_body_size_evolution_Supplementary_Tables_S1-S3 |journal=Biological Reviews |volume=91 |issue=1 |pages=106–147 |doi=10.1111/brv.12161 |pmid=25431138 |s2cid=5332637}}</ref> As a typical feature, it had several ridge scales in front of its [[dorsal fin]] that created a spine-like structure.
== Taxonomy == The following species are known:<ref name="Romano et al 2016" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=PBDB Taxon |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35100 |access-date=2024-10-18 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref>
* '''''D. aculeatus''''' <small>(Jörg, 1969)</small> - Early [[Anisian]] of France * '''''D. gibbosus''''' <small>Martin, 1980</small> - [[Carnian]] of Morocco ([[Timezgadiouine Formation]])<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Khalloufi |first1=Bouziane |last2=Jalil |first2=Nour-Eddine |date=2020 |title=Overview of the Late Triassic (Carnian) actinopterygian fauna from the Argana Basin (Morocco) |url=https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/geoscience/articles/10.5802/crgeos.34/ |journal=Comptes Rendus. Géoscience |language=fr |volume=352 |issue=6–7 |pages=495–513 |doi=10.5802/crgeos.34 |issn=1778-7025}}</ref> * '''''D. cyphus''''' <small>Egerton, 1854</small> - Late Anisian of England ([[Otter Sandstone Formation]]) * '''''D. olgiatii''''' <small>Tintori, 1990</small> - Late [[Ladinian]] of Italy ([[Meride Formation]], [[Monte San Giorgio]])
The species ''D. ornatus'' <small>Bürgin 1992</small> from the [[Besano Formation]] of Switzerland has been reassigned to the [[Polzbergiidae|polzbergiid]] genus ''[[Stoppania]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Lombardo |first1=Cristina |last2=Rusconi |first2=Marco |last3=Tintori |first3=Andrea |date=2008-07-31 |title=NEW PERLEIDIFORM FROM THE LOWER LADINIAN (MIDDLE TRIASSIC) OF THE NORTHERN GRIGNA (NORTHERN ITALY) |url=https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/5901/5922 |journal=Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia |language=en |volume=114 |issue=2 |doi=10.13130/2039-4942/5901 |issn=2039-4942}}</ref>
=== Synonymy === {{extinct}}''Dipteronotus ornatus'' <small>Bürgin, 1992</small><ref>{{cite journal |last=Bürgin |first=Toni |year=1992 |title=Basal ray-finned fishes (Osteichthyes; Actinopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Canton Tessin, Switzerland). Systematic palaeontology with notes on functional morphology and palaeoecology |journal=Schweizerische Paläontologische Abhandlungen |volume=114 |pages=1–164}}</ref> → {{extinct}}''[[Stoppania|Stoppania ornata]]'' (<small>Bürgin, 1992</small>)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lombardo |first1=Cristina |last2=Rusconi |first2=Marco |last3=Tintori |first3=Andrea |year=2008 |title=New perleidiform from the lower Ladinian (Middle Triassic) of the northern Grigna (northern Italy) |journal=Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigraphia |volume=114 |issue=2 |pages=263–272 |doi=10.13130/2039-4942/5901 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Paleontology|Fish}} * [[Prehistoric fish]] * [[List of prehistoric bony fish]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database]
{{Neopterygii}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q5280117}}
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