Furo (fish)

Furo; Temporal range: Carnian - Tithonian, 235–150 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Specimen of an indeterminate species of Furo
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Clade:	Halecomorphi
Order:	†Ionoscopiformes
Family:	†Furidae
Genus:	†Furo; Gistel, 1848
Type species
	†Furo orthostomus; Agassiz, 1845 vide Agassiz, 1833
Species
	†F. orthostomus (Agassiz, 1833-1845); †F. normandica Wenz, 1968; †F. hermesi (Bellott, 1873); ?†F. longiserratus (Agassiz, 1843); †F. trottii (Balsamo Crivelli, 1839); †F. latimanus? (Agassiz, 1843)
Synonyms
	Eugnathus Agassiz, 1843 (preoccupied);

Furo is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish belonging to the order Ioniscopiformes that has been found in Europe. The type species is F. orthostomus.

Taxonomy

The type species of Furo, F. orthostomus, was originally named Eugnathus by the Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz in 1843,^[1] but the genus name was changed to Furo by Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel in 1848 because Eugnathus was preoccupied by the beetle genus Eugnatha. A number of species referred to Furo have been found in the Solnhofen Formation of Bavaria.^[2] The type species of Ophiopsis, O. muensteri, was mistakenly referred to Furo by some authors, but recent studies have indicated that the Furo and Ophiopsis type species are distantly related.^[3]^[4]

References

^ Agassiz, L ., 1833 - 1843. Recherches sur les poissons fossiles. Band 1-5. Neuchatel
^ Lambers, P.H., 1998. The genus Furo (Pisces, Halecomorphi) from the Upper Jurassic Plattenkalke of Germany. Oryctos, 1, 23-35.
^ Lane, J. A. & Ebert, M., 2012: Revision of Furo muensteri (Halecomorphi, Ophiopsidae) from the Upper Jurassic of Western Europe, with comments on the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 32 (4): 799–819. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2012.680325
^ Lane, J. A. & Ebert, M., 2015: A taxonomic reassessment of Ophiopsis (Halecomorphi, Ionoscopiformes), with a revision of Upper Jurassic species from the Solnhofen Archipelago, and a new genus of Ophiopsidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 35 (1): e883238. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2014.883238