Araeosteus
Extinct genus of fishes
title: "Araeosteus" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["monotypic-prehistoric-ray-finned-fish-genera", "prehistoric-percomorph-genera", "zaproridae", "miocene-fish-of-north-america", "tortonian-genera", "fossils-of-california", "taxa-named-by-david-starr-jordan", "fossil-taxa-described-in-1920"] description: "Extinct genus of fishes" topic_path: "general/monotypic-prehistoric-ray-finned-fish-genera" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araeosteus" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Extinct genus of fishes ::
| name = | fossil_range = | image = | taxon = Araeosteus rothi | authority = Jordan & Gilbert, 1920 | parent_authority = Jordan & Gilbert, 1920
Araeosteus is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish, closely related to the modern-day prowfish. It contains a single species, A. rothi which is known from Late Miocene (Tortonian)-aged marine strata in Southern California, primarily the Diatom Beds of Lompoc (Monterey Formation) and the Santa Monica Mountains (Modelo Formation).
Etymology
The generic name is a compound word meaning "slender bone." The specific name honors one Almon Edward Roth of Stanford University.
References
References
- David, Lore Rose. (1943). "Miocene Fishes of Southern California".
- California Academy of Sciences. (1890). "Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences". San Francisco : California Academy of Sciences.
- Jordan, David Starr, Gilbert, James Zaccheus. Fossil fishes of diatom beds of Lompoc, California 1920 [https://books.google.com/books?id=Fj0sAAAAYAAJ&dq=araeosteus&pg=PA5]
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