Fossils indicate marine dispersal in osteoglossid fishes, a classic example of continental vicariance

A Capobianco, M Friedman - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The separation of closely related terrestrial or freshwater species by vast marine barriers
represents a biogeographical riddle. Such cases can provide evidence for vicariance, a …

The Cretaceous–Paleogene transition in spiny-rayed fishes: surveying “Patterson's Gap” in the acanthomorph skeletal record André Dumont medalist lecture 2018

M FRIEDMAN, JV ANDREWS, S Hadeel… - Geologica …, 2023 - popups.uliege.be
In contrast to the rich collections of articulated spiny-rayed fishes from early Late Cretaceous
and Eocene Lagerstätten, similar skeletal remains are sparse in Maastrichtian–Paleocene …

A long-snouted marine bonytongue (teleostei: osteoglossidae) from the early eocene of morocco and the phylogenetic affinities of marine osteoglossids

A Capobianco, S Zouhri… - Zoological Journal of the …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Osteoglossid bonytongues (arapaimas, arowanas, and relatives) are extant tropical
freshwater fishes with a relatively abundant and diverse fossil record. Most osteoglossid …

Offshore marine actinopterygian assemblages from the Maastrichtian–Paleogene of the Pindos Unit in Eurytania, Greece

T Argyriou, D Davesne - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
The fossil record of marine ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) from the time interval
surrounding the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction is scarce at a global scale …

Diverse marine fish assemblages inhabited the paleotropics during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum

S El-Sayed, M Friedman, T Anan, MA Faris… - …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) was a short interval (120–220
ky) of elevated global temperatures, but it is important for understanding biotic responses to …

A revision of Laeliichthys ancestralis Santos, 1985 (Teleostei: Osteoglossomorpha) from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil: Phylogenetic relationships and …

PM Brito, FJ Figueiredo, MEC Leal - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
A re-description of the freshwater, Early Cretaceous osteoglossomorph Laeliichthys
ancestralis Santos, 1985, from the Sanfranciscana Basin of Brazil, is provided. New …

Large-bodied sabre-toothed anchovies reveal unanticipated ecological diversity in early Palaeogene teleosts

A Capobianco, HT Beckett… - Royal Society …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many modern groups of marine fishes first appear in the fossil record during the early
Palaeogene (66–40 Ma), including iconic predatory lineages of spiny-rayed fishes that …