Palaeozoic and early Mesozoic fish faunas of the Japanese Islands |
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| Authors: | MASATOSHI GOTO |
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| Institution: | Department of Anatomy, School of Dental Medicine, Tsurumi University, Tsurumi, Yokohama, 230 Japan |
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| Abstract: | Abstract In recent years, many fish teeth and scales have been found from the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic age strata of the Japanese Islands. This study is a compilation of the Japanese fish record from the Palaeozoic and early Mesozoic age deposits. Based on the published and unpublished data, the fossil fishes from the Palaeozoic and Early Mesozoic of Japan can be classified into 27 genera and 33 species, that is, one species of Devonian placoderms, 19 species of Permian to Jurassic elasmobranchs, three species of Permian cochliodonts, seven species of Carboniferous to Permian petalodonts, and three species of Triassic to Jurassic osteichthyans. |
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| Keywords: | Chondrichthyes cochliodonts elasmobranchs fossil fish fauna Japanese Islands Mesozoic Osteichthyes Palaeozoic petalodonts placoderms |
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