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HOLOSTEI [3 records]

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Record 1 2002-01-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
DEF

Superorder of ray-finned fishes including gars, bowfin, and pholidophoriforms.

OBS

The holosteans flourished during the time the dinosaurs dominated life on land, and are only represented today by one, or possible two, living descendants.

OBS

holosteans, holostei : collective terms rarely used in the singular(holostean).

Key term(s)
  • holostean

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
DEF

Sous-classe de poissons actinoptérygiens, dont le squelette est à peu près complètement ossifié et qui font ainsi le passage entre les chondrostéens et les téléostéens.

OBS

holostéens : pluriel d'usage (terme collectif).

Key term(s)
  • holostéen

Spanish

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Record 2 2000-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
  • Fish
DEF

Order of fairly primitive bony fish consisting of several families dating back to the Triassic Period, and considered by some to be intermediate between the Chondrostei and the Teleostei. Until recently they were grouped with the order Semionotiformes in the infraclass Holostei.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
  • Poissons
OBS

L'ordre des Amiiformes était autrefois très riche, et l'on en connaît de nombreuses formes fossiles remontant au permien, c'est-à-dire à la fin de l'ère primaire, découvertes aussi bien dans le Nouveau Monde que dans l'Ancien. Certains considèrent cet ordre comme suffisamment original pour former une sous-classe de la classe des Ostéichthyens, celle des Holostéens.

Spanish

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Record 3 1978-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
CONT

Infraclass Holostei(...) Order Pycnodontiformes. Pycnodontidae,(...) Gyronchus(Gynoncus Gyroconchus Macromesodon Mesodon Scaphodus Typodus) M. Jur.-L. Cret. Eu.

OBS

M. Jur = Middle Jurassic; L. Cret. = Lower Cretaceous. Eu = Europe.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
DEF

Poisson fossile chondrostéen, au corps aplati, de forme ovale, aux dents en pavé, représenté par diverses espèces s'échelonnant du Lias au Crétacé inférieur.

Spanish

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