Neoceratodus: Difference between revisions

'''''Neoceratodus''''' is a genus of [[lungfish]] in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Neoceratodontidae]]. The extant [[Australian lungfish]] (''Neoceratodus forsteri'') is the only surviving member of this genus, but it was formerly much more widespread, being distributed throughout [[Africa]], [[Australia]], and [[South America]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Fossilworks: Neoceratodus|url=http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=91691|access-date=17 December 2021|website=fossilworks.org}}</ref> Species were also much more diverse in body plan; for example, the [[Cretaceous]] species ''[[Neoceratodus africanus]]'' was a gigantic species that coexisted with ''[[Spinosaurus]]'' in what is now the [[Kem Kem Formation]] of [[Morocco]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ijouiher|first=Jamale|date=2016-09-22|title=A reconstruction of the palaeoecology and environmental dynamics of the Bahariya Formation of Egypt|doi=10.7287/peerj.preprints.2470v1 |url=https://peerj.com/preprints/2470|language=en}}</ref> The earliest fossils from this genus are of ''Neoceratodus potkooroki'' from the mid Cretaceous ([[Albian]]-[[Cenomanian]]) [[Griman Creek Formation]] of Australia; remains from the [[Late Jurassic]] of [[Uruguay]] assigned to this genus probably do not belong to the genus.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Kemp|first1=Anne|last2=Cavin|first2=Lionel|last3=Guinot|first3=Guillaume|date=2017-04-01|title=Evolutionary history of lungfishes with a new phylogeny of post-Devonian genera|journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology|language=en|volume=471|pages=209–219|doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.12.051|bibcode=2017PPP...471..209K |issn=0031-0182|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Kemp|first1=Anne|last2=Berrell|first2=Rodney|date=2020-05-03|title=A New Species of Fossil Lungfish (Osteichthyes: Dipnoi) from the Cretaceous of Australia|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2020.1822369|journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology|language=en|volume=40|issue=3|pages=e1822369|doi=10.1080/02724634.2020.1822369|bibcode=2020JVPal..40E2369K |s2cid=225133051 |issn=0272-4634}}</ref>

Two species formerly classified in ''Neoceratodus'', ''N. gregoryi'' and ''N. djelleh'', have since been reclassified to the genera ''[[Mioceratodus]]'' and ''[[Archaeoceratodus]]'' respectively, as ''[[Mioceratodus gregoryi]]'' and ''[[Archaeoceratodus djelleh]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kemp|first=Anne|date=2018-04-03|title=Adaptations to life in freshwater for Mioceratodus gregoryi, a lungfish from Redbank Plains, an Eocene locality in southeast Queensland, Australia|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2017.1395076|journal=Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology|volume=42|issue=2|pages=305–310|doi=10.1080/03115518.2017.1395076|s2cid=135389476 |issn=0311-5518}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kemp|first=A.|date=July 1997|title=A revision of Australian Mesozoic and Cenozoic lungfish of the family Neoceratodontidae (Osteichthyes:Dipnoi), with a description of four new species|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/revision-of-australian-mesozoic-and-cenozoic-lungfish-of-the-family-neoceratodontidae-osteichthyesdipnoi-with-a-description-of-four-new-species/E3A9ADCA82D5338CA8420BF78A570C02|journal=Journal of Paleontology|language=en|volume=71|issue=4|pages=713–733|doi=10.1017/S0022336000040166|bibcode=1997JPal...71..713K |s2cid=85708769 |issn=0022-3360}}</ref>