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From the album: Oxford Clay Fauna
Caturus porteri RAYNER 1948 Jurassic, Callovian Oxford Clay, Peterborough Member Must Farm, Whittlesey, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK A scale from the medium-sized caturid Caturus porteri RAYNER 1948. -
From the album: Oxford Clay Fauna
Caturus ?megadontus MARTILL 1985 (?= ?Osteorachis leedsi WOODWARD 1897) Jurassic, Callovian Oxford Clay, Peterborough Member Kings dyke, Whittlesey, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK A tooth of the large, macropredatory caturid Caturus ?megadontus MARTILL 1985. MARTILL & HUDSON 1991 consider this species potentially synonymous with the contemporaneous and highly fragmentary caturid ?Osterorachis leedsi WOODWARD 1897, which would make ‘Caturus leedsi’ the valid name for this taxon. -
From the album: Vertebrates
Caturidae non det. Upper Jurassic Tithonian (Malm zeta) Solnhofen Germany Length 33cm / 13" -
Just finished up my recent sketch: a fish from the Solnhoffen lithographic limestone Caturus furcatus. I did this sketch because I'm hoping to acquire a specimen of Caturus furcatus soon, and I wanted to make an "in life" photo to liven up my display. I'm actually quite happy with the result! It only took me a few hours, I really like how the head came out the shadows are very satisfying. I'll attach a picture of the specimen in question that I based my sketch on.
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I found this amazing fossil Caturus furcatus while wandering the google formation. The price is right, jaws are full of teeth, skin has a nice texture. Everything checks out. I just wanted to know if anyone with greater Solnhoffen fish knowledge can spot something that I can't. As stated the fish is from solnhoffen and the length is exactly 6 inches.
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From the album: Vertebrates
Caturus furcatus AGASSIZ, 1834 Upper Jurassic Schernfeld Bavaria Germany Length 18cm So far unprepped -
The Caturidae are represented in the Solnhofen Formation by at least four species: Caturus furcatus Agassiz 1834, Caturus giganteus Wagner, 1851, Caturus pachyurus Agassiz, 1833 (all from Solnhofen) and Caturus bellicianus Thiollière 1852 from Solnhofen, Germany and Cerin, France. The last two species were transferred to the revived sister genus Amblysemius (now Amblysemius pachyurus and Amblysemius bellicianus). C. furcatus was clearly a predator as evidenced by its mouth full of sharp teeth. It was a notable fast swimmer possessing an elongated, somewhat thickset body with slender head. Together with its only sister genus Amblysemius, Caturus was a member of the extinct Halecomorpha family Caturidae. It appears that the halecomorph Liodesmus, known from Solnhofen only, is related to the Caturids, rather than the Amiiforms, as has been usually surmised. Caturus possessed ganoid scales that are more cycloid in nature and as a member of the holosteans a bony skeleton with a partially ossified vertebral column. The head is short an equipped with powerfully toothed jaws. The dorsal fin is pointed and attached just posterior to the body's midpoint. anal fin is attached somewhat more to the rear. The caudal fin is large and deeply divided. Juvenile species.
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From the album: Vertebrates
Caturus furcatus AGASSIZ, 1834 Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Bavaria Germany Length 11cm -
The Caturidae are represented in the Solnhofen Formation by at least four species: Caturus furcatus Agassiz 1834, Caturus giganteus Wagner, 1851, Caturus pachyurus Agassiz, 1833 (all from Solnhofen) and Caturus bellicianus Thiollière 1852 from Solnhofen, Germany and Cerin, France. The last two species were transferred to the revived sister genus Amblysemius (now Amblysemius pachyurus and Amblysemius bellicianus). C. furcatus was clearly a predator as evidenced by its mouth full of sharp teeth. It was a notable fast swimmer possessing an elongated, somewhat thickset body with slender head. Together with its only sister genus Amblysemius, Caturus was a member of the extinct Halecomorpha family Caturidae. It appears that the halecomorph Liodesmus, known from Solnhofen only, is related to the Caturids, rather than the Amiiforms, as has been usually surmised. Caturus possessed ganoid scales that are more cycloid in nature and as a member of the holosteans a bony skeleton with a partially ossified vertebral column. The head is short an equipped with powerfully toothed jaws. The dorsal fin is pointed and attached just posterior to the body's midpoint. anal fin is attached somewhat more to the rear. The caudal fin is large and deeply divided. Juvenile species.
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The Caturidae are represented in the Solnhofen Formation by at least four species: Caturus furcatus Agassiz 1834, Caturus giganteus Wagner, 1851, Caturus pachyurus Agassiz, 1833 (all from Solnhofen) and Caturus bellicianus Thiollière 1852 from Solnhofen, Germany and Cerin, France. C. giganteus is now transferred to the new genus Strobilobodus; the last two species were transferred to the revived sister genus Amblysemius (now Amblysemius pachyurus and Amblysemius bellicianus). C. furcatus was clearly a predator as evidenced by its mouth full of sharp teeth. It was a notable fast swimmer possessing an elongated, somewhat thickset body with slender head. Together with its only sister genus Amblysemius, Caturus was a member of the extinct Halecomorpha family Caturidae. It appears that the halecomorph Liodesmus, known from Solnhofen only, is related to the Caturids, rather than the Amiiforms, as has been usually surmised. Caturus possessed ganoid scales that are more cycloid in nature and as a member of the holosteans a bony skeleton with a partially ossified vertebral column. The head is short an equipped with powerfully toothed jaws. The dorsal fin is pointed and attached just posterior to the body's midpoint. anal fin is attached somewhat more to the rear. The caudal fin is large and deeply divided. Less than 5% of all adult Caturus show peculiar anal fins with two small outgrows of unknown function (such as seen here). With a hefty 52cm or 20" in length, this is clearly an adult specimen.
