Amyzon (other)
Florissantia can refer to: * Amyzon (city), an ancient city in what is now Turkey * ''Amyzon'' (fish), an extinct Eocene fish genus from North America See also * Amazon (other) Amazon most often refers to: * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mytho ...

Amyzon (city)
Amyzon () in Caria (now Mazin, Aydın Province between the villages of Akmescit, Koçarlı, Akmescit and Gaffarlar, Koçarlı, Gaffarlar, in Aegean Turkey) was an ancient Colonia (Roman), city 30 km south of modern Koçarlı. History The city was in the Delian League, Athenian alliance in 405 BC. Under the Seleucids, Amyzon was one of the cities in the Chrysaorian League of Carian cities that lasted at least until 203 BC, when Antiochus III confirmed the privileges of Amyzon. The League had a form of reciprocal citizenship whereby a citizen of a member city was entitled to certain rights and privileges in any other member city. The city was dismissed by Strabo as a mere ('suburb' or 'township') of Alabanda; Amyzon was mentioned by Pliny the Elder, Pliny, Ptolemy and Hierocles (author of Synecdemus), Hierocles. In the wars among the successors of Alexander the Great, Alexander, in the 3rd century BC, the city allied with the less immediately threatening power, first with ...
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Amyzon (fish)
''Amyzon'' is an extinct genus belonging to the sucker family Catostomidae first described in 1872 by E. D. Cope. There are six valid species in the genus. ''Amyzon'' are found in North American fossil sites dated from the Early Eocene in Montana and Washington USA, as well as the British Columbian sites at McAbee Fossil Beds, Driftwood Canyon, and the " Horsefly shale", as well as Early Oligocene sites in Nevada USA. One Middle Eocene species is known from the Xiawanpu Formation of China. The Ypresian species ''A. brevipinne'' of the Allenby Formation was redescribed in 2021 and moved to a separate monotypic genus '' Wilsonium''. Species There are six valid species included in ''Amyzon'' with up to nine species having been described. * ''A. aggregatum'' Early Eocene (Ypresian), Horsefly Beds, Horsefly, B.C. * ''A. commune'' late Eocene Florissant Formation, Colorado (junior synonyms ''A. fusiforme'' Cope, 1875 & ''A. pandatum'' Cope, 1874 ) * ''A. gosiutensis'' Eocene Gre ...
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