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Casierius Temporal range: Early Albian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Albuliformes
Family:	†Phyllodontidae
Genus:	†Casierius Estes, 1969
Species:	†C. heckeli
Binomial name
†Casierius heckeli Estes, 1969

Casierius is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous epoch. It was a relative of the modern bonefish in the extinct family Phyllodontidae, although some authorities consider it either a true albulid (making it even more closely related to bonefish) or a very early eel. It contains a single species, C. heckeli, known from the Glen Rose Formation near Hood County, Texas.

See also

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish

References

1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
2. Guinot, Guillaume; Cavin, Lionel (2018). "Body size evolution and habitat colonization across 100 million years (Late Jurassic–Paleocene) of the actinopterygian evolutionary history". Fish and Fisheries. 19 (4): 577–597. doi:10.1111/faf.12275. ISSN 1467-2960.
3. "Albuloidei". www.mv.helsinki.fi. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
4. Halliday, Thomas J. D.; Cuff, Andrew R.; Prasad, Guntupalli V. R.; Thanglemmoi, Mechek S.; Goswami, Anjali (May 2016). Johanson, Zerina (ed.). "New record of E gertonia (Elopiformes, Phyllodontidae) from the Late Cretaceous of South India". Papers in Palaeontology. 2 (2): 287–294. doi:10.1002/spp2.1040. ISSN 2056-2799.
5. Schwarzhans, Werner; Stringer, Gary L.; Welton, Bruce (2022-12-01). "Oldest Teleostean Otolith Assemblage from North America (Pawpaw Formation, Lower Cretaceous, upper Albian, northeast Texas, USA)". Cretaceous Research. 140: 105307. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105307. ISSN 0195-6671.
6. "†Casierius Estes 1969 (eel)". PBDB.

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Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Subclass: Neopterygii Infraclass: Teleostei Actinopterygii see Actinopterygii Neopterygii see Neopterygii Teleostei see Teleostei Elopomorpha see below↓ Elopomorpha
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