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Earliest North American articulated freshwater acanthomorph fish (Teleostei: Percopsiformes) from Upper Cretaceous deposits of Alberta, Canada

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Alison M. Murray Open the ORCID record for Alison M. Murray [Opens in a new window] ,
Donald B. Brinkman ,
Michael G. Newbrey  and
Andrew G. Neuman
Alison M. Murray*
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E9, Canada
Donald B. Brinkman
Affiliation:
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Alberta, T0J 0Y0, Canada
Michael G. Newbrey
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia 31907-5645, USA
Andrew G. Neuman
Affiliation:
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Alberta, T0J 0Y0, Canada
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Author for correspondence: Alison M. Murray, Email: ammurray@ualberta.ca
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Abstract

Fossil material from the Maastrichtian part of the Scollard Formation is identified as belonging to an acanthomorph fish. An articulated specimen, preserved in part and counterpart, is a member of the paracanthopterygian order Percopsiformes, based on it having a full neural spine on the second preural centrum and two epurals in the caudal skeleton (both paracanthopterygian characters), as well as six branchiostegal rays and an anterodorsal excavated margin on the opercle (percopsiform characters). We name this as a new genus and species, Lindoeichthys albertensis. A phylogenetic analysis with no prior constraints recovered a single most-parsimonious tree with the new taxon placed as the sister group to a clade containing the Palaeocene Montana genus Mcconichthys + Percopsidae. However, this analysis did not recover the traditional percopsiforms (including Aphredoderidae and Amblyopsidae) as monophyletic. A second analysis, in which we constrained the traditional members of the Percopsiformes to be monophyletic, resulted in the new species being placed as the sister group to Percopsis. The articulated percopsiform specimen from the Pisces Point locality allows isolated dentaries from vertebrate microfossil localities to be identified as being from a member of that group. These isolated elements first appear in the late Campanian Judith River Group of Alberta and the Kaiparowits Formation of Utah, documenting that percopsiform fishes were present in the Western Interior of North America at least 75 Ma ago.

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AcanthomorphaCampanianMaastrichtianParacanthopterygii

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Geological Magazine , Volume 157 , Issue 7 , July 2020 , pp. 1087 - 1096
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