Lower pharyngeal jaw of a cichlid fish (actinopterygii; labroidei) from an early oligocene site in the fayum, Egypt

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 453-455

  Murray, Alison M ^a  

^a CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; MORPHOLOGY; OLIGOCENE;

EGYPT;

ACTINOPTERYGII; CICHLIDAE; LABROIDEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035982875     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: 19372809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1671/0272-4634(2002)022[0453:LPJOAC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Bown, T. M., and M. J. Kraus. 1988. Geology and paleoenvironment of the Oligocene Jebel Qatrani Formation and adjacent rocks, Fayum Depression, Egypt. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1452:1-60.
2. Greenwood, P. H. 1972. New fish fossils from the Pliocene of Wadi Natrun, Egypt. Journal of Zoology, London 168:503-519.
3. Greenwood, P. H. 1973. Fish fossils from the Late Miocene of Tunisia. Travaux de Géologie Tunisienne no. 6(2), Notes du Service Géologique 37: 41-72.
4. Greenwood, P. H. 1983. The zoogeography of African freshwater fishes: bioaccountancy or biogeography?; pp. 179-199 in R. W. Sims, J. H. Price, and P. E. S. Whalley (eds.). Evolution, Time and Space: The Emergence of the Biosphere. Systematics Association Special Volume 23. Academic Press, London and New York.
5. Kappelman, J. 1992. The age of the Fayum primates as determined by paleomagnetic reversal stratigraphy. Journal of Human Evolution 22:495-503.
6. Kappelman, J., E. L. Simons, and C. C. Swisher III. 1992. New age determinations for the Eocene-Oligocene boundary sediments in the Fayum Depression, Northern Egypt. Journal of Geology 100:647-668.
7. Kaufmann, L. S., and K. F. Liem. 1982. Fishes of the suborder Labroidei (Pisces: Perciformes): phylogeny, ecology, and evolutionary significance. Breviora, Museum of Comparative Zoology 472:1-19.
8. Murray, A. M. 2000. Eocene cichlid fishes from Tanzania, East Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20:651-664.
9. Murray, A. M., and K. M. Stewart. 1999. A new species of tilapiine cichlid from the Pliocene, Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19:293-301.
10. Murray, A. M., and K. M. Stewart (in press). Fish remains from the Late Pliocene Chiwondo Beds, Malawi. Kaupia: Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte.
11. Nelson, J. S. 1994. Fishes of the World, 3rd ed. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Toronto, 600 pp.
12. Peyer, B. 1928. Die Welse des ägyptischen Alttertiärs nebst einer kritischen Übersicht über alle fossilen Welse. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-naturwissenshaftliche Abteilung 32(3): 1-61.
13. Snoeks, J. 1994. The haplochromines (Teleostei, Cichlidae) of Lake Kivu (East Africa): a taxonomic revision with notes on their ecology. Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Annales Sciences Zoologiques 270:1-221.
14. Stewart, K. M. 1997. Fossil fish from the Manonga Valley, Tanzania. Description, paleoecology, and biogeographic relationships; pp. 333-349 in T. Harrison (ed.), Neogene Paleontology of the Manonga Valley, Tanzania. Topics in Geobiology, 14, Plenum Press, New York.
15. Stiassny, M. L. J. 1989. A taxonomic revision of the African genus Tylochromis (Labroidei, Cichlidae), with notes on the anatomy and relationships of the group. Musée Royal de TAfrique Centrale, Tervuren, Annales Sciences Zoologiques 258:1-161.
16. Stiassny, M. L. J. 1991. Phylogenetic intrarelationships of the family Cichlidae: an overview; pp. 1-35 in M. H. A. Keenleyside (ed.), Cichlid Fishes: Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution. Chapman and Hall, London.
17. Stiassny, M. L. J., and J. S. Jensen. 1987. Labroid intrarelationships revisited: morphological complexity, key innovations, and the study of comparative diversity. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 151:269-319.
18. Streelman, J. X, and S. A. Karl. 1997. Reconstructing labroid evolution with single-copy nuclear DNA. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, series B 264:1011-1020.
19. Stromer, E. 1916. Die Entdeckung und die Bedentung der Land und Süsswasser bewohnenden Wirbeltiere im Tertiär und in der Kreide Aegyptens. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft (Abhandlungen und Monatsberichte) 68:397-425.
20. Van Couvering, J. A. H. 1982. Fossil cichlid fish of Africa. Special Papers in Palaeontology, The Palaeontological Association, London 29:1-103