Enniskillenus

Extinct genus of fishes

Enniskillenus

Temporal range: Early Eocene

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Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Carangiformes
Suborder:  | Menoidei
Superfamily:  | Xiphioidea
Family:  | †Palaeorhynchidae
Genus:  | †Enniskillenus
Casier, 1966
Species:  |

†E. radiatus

Binomial name
†Enniskillenus radiatus

Casier, 1966 ex Agassiz, 1833

Enniskillenus is an extinct genus of prehistoric billfish from the Eocene of Europe. It contains a single species, E. radiatus from the Early Eocene-aged London Clay of England.[1][2]

The species was first improperly named without a description (as Ptychocephalus radiatus) by Agassiz (1833), and later assigned as an indeterminate member of Palaeorhynchus by Woodward (1901).[3] It was properly described by Casier in 1966,[3] who placed it in the new genus Enniskillenus, named in honor of William Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen, who collected fossil fish and donated specimens to the British Museum.[4]

Although often often placed in the primitive billfish family Palaeorhynchidae, most specimens of Enniskillenus do not preserve enough traits for a refined classification, though their vertebral morphology and rostra confirm that they are at least billfish.[3]

## References

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* Enniskillenus, Paleobiology Database

1. ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
2. ^ "Enniskillenus radiatus – London Clay Fossils". Retrieved 2024-12-29.
3. ^ a b c Monsch, Kenneth A. (2004). "Revision of the scombroid fishes from the Cenozoic of England". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 95 (3–4): 445–489\. doi:10.1017/S0263593300001164. ISSN 1755-6929.3–4&rft.pages=445-489&rft.date=2004&rft_id=info:doi/10.1017/S0263593300001164&rft.issn=1755-6929&rft.aulast=Monsch&rft.aufirst=Kenneth+A.&rft_id=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/earth-and-environmental-science-transactions-of-royal-society-of-edinburgh/article/abs/revision-of-the-scombroid-fishes-from-the-cenozoic-of-england/4C0CBDC19BB39C4709617722D6FBE64C&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Enniskillenus" class="Z3988">
4. ^ Friedman, Matt; Beckett, Hermione T.; Close, Roger A.; Johanson, Zerina (2016). "The English Chalk and London Clay: two remarkable British bony fish Lagerstätten". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 430 (1): 165–200\. doi:10.1144/SP430.18.

Taxon identifiers

Enniskillenus|

* Wikidata: Q5379216
* GBIF: 4840726
* IRMNG: 1451330
* Open Tree of Life: 3640162
* Paleobiology Database: 35642
* Taxonomicon: 1324216

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