''Furo'' is an

extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...

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 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 rec ...

in 1843, but the genus name was changed to ''Furo'' by Gistel in 1848 because ''Eugnathus'' was preoccupied by the spider 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 ...

'', ''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