Balistomorphus is an extinct genus of prehistoric triggerfish during the early Oligocene epoch in what is now Canton Glarus, Switzerland. It inhabited the marine environment of the Tethys Ocean.[1][2][3][4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Balistidae |
| Genus: | †Balistomorphus Gill, 1888 |
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The following species are known. All were formerly placed in the preoccupied genus Acanthoderma:[2][5]
Woodward (1901) considered all species synonymous with B. spinosus, but later studies have retained them all as distinct.[3][5]
See also
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References
edit- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ a b "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
- ^ a b Bannikov, A. F.; Tyler, J. C. (2008-10-01). "A new genus and species of triggerfish from the Middle Eocene of the Northern Caucasus, the earliest member of the Balistidae (Tetraodontiformes)". Paleontological Journal. 42 (6): 615–620. Bibcode:2008PalJ...42..615B. doi:10.1134/S0031030108060075. ISSN 1555-6174.
- ^ McCord, Charlene L.; Westneat, Mark W. (2016-01-01). "Phylogenetic relationships and the evolution of BMP4 in triggerfishes and filefishes (Balistoidea)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 94 (Pt A): 397–409. Bibcode:2016MolPE..94..397M. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.09.014. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 26408967.
- ^ a b Geology, British Museum (Natural History) Department of; Woodward, Arthur Smith (1901). Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History): Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the suborders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini. order of the Trustees.
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