''Furo'' is an

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ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...

belonging to the order Ioniscopiformes that has been found in

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. The type species is ''F. orthostomus''.

Taxonomy

The type species of ''Furo'', ''F. orthostomus'', was originally named ''Eugnathus'' by the Swiss naturalist

Louis Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( ; ) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Spending his early life in Switzerland, he recei ...

in 1843, but the genus name was changed to ''Furo'' by

Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel istl(11 August 1809 – 9 March 1873) was a German naturalist. He worked at the Museum of Natural History in Regensburg, and wrote on a range of topics under the pseudonyms Garduus and G. Tilesius (an ...

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. The type species of ''

Ophiopsis ''Ophiopsis'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ophiopsidae. Specimens are known from the Tithonian-age Solnhofen Formation of Bavaria, Germany. Taxonomy The type species, ''Ophiopsis muensteri'', was pre ...

'', ''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.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

References

Ionoscopiformes Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Jurassic fish of Europe Mesozoic fish of Europe Fossil taxa described in 1848 {{Jurassic-fish-stub