- Grande, L.; Bemis, W.E. (1998). "A
Comprehensive Phylogenetic Study of
Amiid Fishes (Amiidae)
Based on
Comparative Skeletal Anatomy. An
Empirical Search...
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Cretaceous of Thailand:
Implications on the
Evolutionary History of the
Amiid Lineage". Diversity. 15 (4): 491. doi:10.3390/d15040491. ISSN 1424-2818...
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Melvius and Amia basiloides, the two
largest known amiids. It is one of the
earliest known amiids to
evolve a
large body size.
Paleontology portal "PBDB...
- fish
fossils record the
presence of:
hybodont sharks, guitarfish, gars,
amiids, ophiopsids, oshuniids, pycnodontids, aspidorhynchids, cladocyclids, bonefishes...
-
thought to have
likely scavenged on them),
suggesting that
unlike other amiids,
Cyclurus likely fed on
small invertebrates instead of
other fish. However...
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amiine Pseudoamiatus, and the
marine vidalamiine Maliamia were the only
amiids, and
halecomorphs as a whole, to
survive the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction...
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Fossil Lake Lake
Gosiute An
amiid bowfin. †Cyclurus †C.
gurleyi (Romer & Fryxell, 1928)
Fossil Lake Only 8
specimens known An
amiid related to
modern bowfins...
- as
evidence of
opportunistic feeding on
drowning or dead bats by
Eocene amiids and gars from the
Messel pit (Germany). Gouiric-Cavalli et al. (2024) describe...
- scales. They are also
present in some
tetrapodomorphs like Eusthenopteron,
amiids, and teleosts,
whose cycloid and
ctenoid scales represent the
least mineralized...
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relative known to
rival it in size was the
slightly smaller Late
Cretaceous amiid Melvius. Its
large size was
likely related to the
extinction of Melvius...
