Mesozoic Fishes 1 - Systematics and Paleoecology

ARRATIA, Gloria & Günter VIOHL (Herausgeber) Mesozoic Fishes 1 - Systematics and Paleoecology Contents Preface 7 Acknowledgments 7 Marcelo R. de CARVALHO & John G. MAISEY: The phylogenetic relationship of the Late Jurassic shark Protospinax Woodward 1919 (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii) 9 Paulo M. BRITO & Bernard SERET: The new genus Iansan (Chondrichthyes, Rhinobatoidea) from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil and its phylogenetic relationships 47 Alberto L. CIONE: The extinct genus Notidanodon (Neoselachii, Hexanchiformes) 63 Masatoshi GOTO, Teruya UYENO & Yoshitaka YABUMOTO: Summary of Mesozoic elasmobranch remains from Japan 73 Hans-Peter SCHULTZE: The scales of Mesozoic actinopterygians 83 François J. MEUNIER & Mireille GAYET: A new polypteriform from the Late Cretaceous and the middle Paleocene of South America 95 Detlev THIES & Alexander MUDROCH: Actinopterygian teeth from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) of N Germany 105 J. Ralph NURSALL: Distribution and ecology of pycnodont fishes 115 J. Ralph NURSALL: The phylogeny of pycnodont fishes 125 Sylvie WENZ & Paulo M. BRITO: New data about the lepisosteids and semionotids from the Early Cretaceous of Chapada do Araripe (NE Brazil): Phylogenetic implications 153 Andrea TINTORI: Paralepidotus ornatus (AGASSIZ 1833-43): A semionotid from the Norian (Late Triassic) of Europe 167 Lance GRANDE: Using the extant Amia calva to test the monophyly of Mesozoic groups of fishes 181 Gloria ARRATIA & Paul LAMBERS: The caudal skeleton of pachycormiforms: Parallel evolution? 191 Gloria ARRATIA: Reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of certain Jurassic teleosts and their implications on teleostean phylogeny 219 Gloria ARRATIA: The Jurassic and the early history of teleosts 243 Mei SHEN: Fossil „osteoglossomorphs“ from East Asia and their implications for teleostean phylogeny 261 Niels BONDE: Osteoglossids (Teleostei: Osteoglossomorpha) of the Mesozoic. Comments on their interrelationships 273 Guo-qing LI: A new species of Late Cretaceous osteoglossid (Teleostei) from the Oldman Formation of Alberta, Canada, and its phylogenetic relationships 285 Terry GRANDE: The interrelationships of fossil and Recent gonorynchid fishes with comments on two Cretaceous taxa from Israel 299 Francisco José POYATO-ARIZA: A revision of Rubiesichthys gregalis WENZ 1984 (Ostariophysi, Gonorynchiformes), from the Early Cretaceous of Spain 319 Francisco José POYATO-ARIZA: The phylogenetic relationships of Rubiesichthys gregalis and Gordichthys conquensis (Ostariophysi, Chanidae), from the Early Cretaceous of Spain 329 Yael CHALIFA: New species of Enchodus (Aulopiformes: Enchodontidae) from the Northern Negev, Israel, with comments on evolutionary trends in the Enchodontoidei 349 Mark V. H. WILSON & Alison M. MURRAY: Early Cenomanian acanthomorph teleost in the Cretaceous Fish Scale Zone, Albian/Cenomanian Boundary, Alberta, Canada 369 J. D. STEWART: Cretaceous acanthomorphs of North America 383 Paul H. LAMBERS: A redescription of the coelacanth Macropoma willemoesii VETTER from the lithographic limestone of Solnhofen (Upper Jurassic, Bavaria) 395 Anne KEMP: Triassic lungfish from Gondwana 409 Werner SCHWARZHANS: Otoliths from the Maastrichtian of Bavaria and their evolutionary significance 417 Dirk NOLF & Gary L. STRINGER: Cretaceous fish otoliths - a synthesis of the North American record 433 Mee-mann CHANG & Fan JIN: Mesozoic fish faunas of China 461 Laurence BELTAN: Overview of systematics, paleobiology, and paleoecology of Triassic fishes of northwestern Madagascar 479 Olivier RIEPPEL, René KINDLIMANN & Hugo BUCHER: A new fossil fish fauna from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) of North-Western Nevada 501 Günter VIOHL: The paleoenvironment of the Late Jurassic fishes from the southern Franconian Alb (Bavaria, Germany) 513 Shelton Pleasants APPLEGATE: An overview of the Cretaceous fishes of the quarries near Tepexi de Rodríguez, Puebla, México 529 Luis ESPINOSA-ARRUBARRENA & Shelton Pleasants APPLEGATE: A paleoecological model of the vertebrate bearing beds in the Tlayúa quarries, near Tepexi de Rodríguez, Puebla, México 539 David G. SENN: Environments and functional anatomy of certain Mesozoic fishes 551 Toni BÜRGIN: Diversity in the feeding apparatus of perleidid fishes (Actinopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland) 555 Andrea TINTORI: The field excursion in Northern Italy 567