A study on the marine fish extinction rates during background and mass extinctions from the Permian through Early Jurassic, compared with extinction trajectories of marine invertebrates, is published by Vázquez & Clapham (2017).[1]
A study on the ecological diversity and lifestyles of thelodonts as indicated by their squamation patterns is published by Ferrón & Botella (2017).[2]
A study on the phylogenetic relationships of members of the group Pteraspidiformes is published by Randle & Sansom (2017).[4]
New material of Cornovichthys blaauweni and Achanarella trewini is described from the Devonian of Scotland by van der Brugghen (2017), who considers both species to represent the same euphaneropid taxon, which he considers to be a member of the genus Euphanerops belonging or related to the species Euphanerops longaevus.[5]
A study on the morphology of the gill arches of the type specimen of Paraplesiobatis heinrichsi is published by Brazeau et al. (2017).[7]
Description of the anatomy of a three-dimensionally preserved skull of the placodermRomundina stellina is published by Dupret et al. (2017).[8]
A study on the putative dental plate of Romundina stellina described by Rücklin & Donoghue (2015)[9] is published by Smith et al. (2017), who reject the interpretation of the specimen as a dental plate.[10]
A study on the plates of armour of arthrodire placoderms from the Devonian (Emsian) of Morocco, evaluating whether their differences can be considered distinctive between species, is published by Antczak & Berkowski (2017).[12]
A description of a nearly complete specimen of Titanichthys from the DevonianCleveland Shale and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of the taxon is published by Boyle & Ryan (2017).[13]
Redescription of the Devonian arthrodire species Szelepis yunnanensis, a revision of the fossil material attributed to members of this species and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of the species is published by Dupret, Zhu & Wang (2017).[14]
A study on the placoderm jaw morphology and function based on data from a buchanosteid specimen from the Early Devonian limestones (~400 Ma) at Burrinjuck, near Canberra (Australia), is published by Hu, Lu & Young (2017).[15]
A study on the relationship between the locomotory patterns and the morphological variability of the tail fins in extant sharks, and its implications for the possible morphology of the tail fin of Dunkleosteus terrelli is published by Ferrón, Martínez-Pérez & Botella (2017).[16]
Chevrinais, Sire & Cloutier (2017) describe the ontogeny of Triazeugacanthus affinis and compare it to the ontogeny of other "acanthodians", cartilaginous fishes and bony fishes.[20]
A study on the anatomy of the pectoral region of the skeleton of Doliodus problematicus is published by Maisey et al. (2017).[21]
A study on the phylogenetic relationships of the Devonian (Emsian) species "Ctenacanthus" latispinosus is published by Burrow et al. (2017), who transfer this species to the genus Doliodus.[22]
A study on the phylogenetic relationships of Palaeospondylus gunni is published by Johanson et al. (2017), who interpret the species as a stem-cartilaginous fish.[25]
Partial braincases of two gigantic ctenacanthiform sharks, estimated to attain lengths up to 7 m and body weights of 1500–2500 kg, are described from the Carboniferous (Upper Pennsylvanian) Finis Shale (Texas, United States) by Maisey et al. (2017).[26]
A study on the anatomy of the braincase of a Permian cartilaginous fish Dwykaselachus oosthuizeni is published by Coates et al. (2017).[27]
A study on the environment in the area corresponding to the present-day Amazon basin in the Miocene as indicated by data from the shark and ray fossils from the Pirabas Formation (Brazil) is published by Aguilera et al. (2017).[32]
Shark assemblage consisting mainly of the teeth of small (probably juvenile) specimens of the copper shark (Carcharhinus brachyurus), interpreted as a secondary nursery area for copper sharks, is described from the MiocenePisco Formation (Peru) by Landini et al. (2017).[35]
A study on the methods which can be used to support taxonomic identifications of fossil sharks known from isolated teeth is published by Marramà & Kriwet (2017), who consider fossil sand tiger shark genus Brachycarcharias to be distinct from the genus Lamna.[36]
A study on the morphology of the cushion-shaped tooth-bearing plates from the Silurian of Estonia attributed to Lophosteus superbus, as well as on tooth addition, shedding and replacement in this taxon, is published by Chen et al. (2017).[37]
Redescription of the Permian ray-finned fish Elonichthys fritschi is published by Schindler (2017), who presents the first reconstruction of the skull of this species.[38]
Description of fish fossils from the Cretaceous (Santonian) Iharkút vertebrate site (Bakony Mountains, Hungary) is published by Szabó & Ősi (2017).[41]
A redescription of Kyphosichthys grandei and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of the species is published by Sun & Ni (2017), who name the new family Kyphosichthyidae.[42]
A study on the phylogenetic relationships of the Late Cretaceous species Sorbinicharax verraesi is published by Mayrinck et al. (2017).[43]
A redescription of "Chanos" leopoldi from the Cretaceous (Albian) Limestones of Pietraroja (Italy) and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of the species is published by Taverne & Capasso (2017), who reinstate the distinct genus Caeus for this species.[49]
A study on the phylogenetic relationships of living and fossil members of the family Ictaluridae, and on time of origin of the clade, is published by Arce-H., Lundberg & O'Leary (2017), who present the first combined data analysis of morphological and genetic data for Ictaluridae that also includes fossil species.[50]
A redescription of the EocenebarracudinaHolosteus esocinus and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of the species is published by Marramà & Carnevale (2017).[52]
A redescription of the holotype specimen of Bajaichthys elegans and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of the species is published by Davesne, Carnevale & Friedman (2017).[53]
A study on the phylogeny and evolutionary history of the Tetraodontiformes is published by Arcila & Tyler (2017), who detect a major extinction of members of the group during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum.[55]
A study on the structure and homology of the lung plates of extant and fossil coelacanths is published by Cupello et al. (2017).[60]
The first direct evidence for feeding on conodonts by Late Devonian coelacanths (a single conodont element from the gut content of a possible specimen of Diplocercides, as well as several conodont elements detected within a coprolite) is reported from the Famennian deposits in Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Poland) by Zatoń et al. (2017).[61]
A study on the phylogenetic relationships, rates of origination and extinction, and trends in body size changes of the post-Devonian fossil lungfish is published by Kemp, Cavin & Guinot (2017).[62]
A study on the phylogenetic relationships of the Early Cretaceous lungfish known from the tooth plates recovered from the Ain el Guettar Formation (Tunisia) is published by Cau (2017).[63]
A study on the evolution of eye size in early tetrapods and in fish belonging to the lineage that gave rise to tetrapods, as well as on the impact of the eye size on the eye performance while viewing objects through water and through air is published by MacIver et al. (2017).[65]
A study on the evolution of forelimb musculature from the lobe-finned fish to early tetrapods is published online by Molnar et al. (2017).[66]
A history of the first articulated fossil fishes discovered in the United States (Early Jurassic, Newark Supergroup) is published by Brignon (2017).[67]
A ray-finned fish belonging to the group Eurynotoidiformes. Originally described as a species of Isadia, but subsequently made the type species of the separate genus Vologdinia.[118]
A member of Clupeidae. The type species is "Sardinella" perrata Daniltshenko (1970); genus also includes Karaganops komochtitziensis (Strashimirov, 1985).
A member of Alosinae. Genus includes new species M. switshenskae. Baykina & Schwarzhans (2017) also listed "Clupea" gomotartziensis Strashimirov (1985) as a possible species belonging to this genus, but subsequently this species was moved to the genus Maeotichthys.[128]
A non-perleidiform member of Actinopterygii. A new genus for "Perleidus" madagascariensis Piveteau (1934); genus also includes "Perleidus" woodwardi, "Perleidus" stoschiensis, "Perleidus" lutoensis and "Perleidus" lehmani.
A member of the family Congridae. The type species is "Scalanago" fastigatus Schwarzhans (1980); genus also includes "Mystriophis" obliquum Stinton (1957), Tonganago sagittisulcatus (Schwarzhans, 1980) and a new species T. coplandi.
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^Carole J. Burrow; Susan Turner; John G. Maisey; Sylvain Desbiens; Randall F. Miller (2017). "Spines of the stem chondrichthyan Doliodus latispinosus (Whiteaves) comb. nov. from the Lower Devonian of eastern Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 54 (12): 1248–1262. Bibcode:2017CaJES..54.1248B. doi:10.1139/cjes-2017-0059. hdl:1807/78890.
^Susan Turner; Steve Avery (2017). "A Jurassic non-marine chondrichthyan in Australia and its palaeogeographic significance". Palaeoworld. 26 (2): 268–278. doi:10.1016/j.palwor.2017.01.001.
^Jared T. Voris; Andrew B. Heckert (2017). "Ontogenetic heterodonty in Reticulodus synergus (Chondrichthyes, Hybodontiformes) from the Upper Triassic of the southwestern U.S.A., with a redescription of the genus". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (4): e1351980. Bibcode:2017JVPal..37E1980V. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1351980. S2CID90871323.
^Alberto Collareta; Olivier Lambert; Walter Landini; Claudio Di Celma; Elisa Malinverno; Rafael Varas-Malca; Mario Urbina; Giovanni Bianucci (2017). "Did the giant extinct shark Carcharocles megalodon target small prey? Bite marks on marine mammal remains from the late Miocene of Peru". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 469: 84–91. Bibcode:2017PPP...469...84C. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.01.001. hdl:10281/151854.
^Walter Landini; Alberto Collareta; Fabio Pesci; Claudio Di Celma; Mario Urbina; Giovanni Bianucci (2017). "A secondary nursery area for the copper shark Carcharhinus brachyurus from the late Miocene of Peru". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 78: 164–174. Bibcode:2017JSAES..78..164L. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2017.07.003.
^Zuoyu Sun; Peigang Ni (2017). "Revision of Kyphosichthys grandei Xu & Wu, 2012 from the Middle Triassic of Yunnan Province, South China: implications for phylogenetic interrelationships of ginglymodian fishes". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16 (1): 67–85. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1269049. S2CID90682552.
^Martin Konwert; Sebastian Stumpf (2017). "Exceptionally preserved Leptolepidae (Actinopterygii, Teleostei) from the late Early Jurassic Fossil-Lagerstätten of Grimmen and Dobbertin (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany)". Zootaxa. 4243 (2): 249–296. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4243.2.2. PMID28610149.
^Giuseppe Marramà; Giorgio Carnevale (2017). "The relationships of Gasteroclupea branisai Signeux, 1964, a freshwater double-armored herring (Clupeomorpha, Ellimmichthyiformes) from the Late Cretaceous-Paleocene of South America". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 29 (7): 904–917. Bibcode:2017HBio...29..904M. doi:10.1080/08912963.2016.1262855. S2CID88892891.
^Giuseppe Marramà; Giorgio Carnevale (2017). "Morphology, relationships and palaeobiology of the Eocene barracudina †Holosteus esocinus (Aulopiformes: Paralepididae) from Monte Bolca, Italy". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 181 (1): 209–228. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlw029.
^Michael J. Ghedotti; Matthew P. Davis (2017). "The taxonomic placement of three fossil Fundulus species and the timing of divergence within the North American topminnows (Teleostei: Fundulidae) ( Jonet, 1958)". Zootaxa. 4250 (6): 577–586. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4250.6.5. PMID28609996.
^Tom Challands; Jan den Blaauwen (2017). "A redescription of the Middle Devonian dipnoan Pentlandia macroptera Traquair, 1889, and an assessment of the Phaneropleuridae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 180 (2): 414–460. doi:10.1111/zoj.12491.
^Arnaud Brignon (2017). "The earliest discoveries of articulated fossil fishes (Actinopterygii) in the United States: A historical perspective". American Journal of Science. 317 (2): 216–250. Bibcode:2017AmJS..317..216B. doi:10.2475/02.2017.03. S2CID89973187.
^Hans-Peter Schultze; Stephen L. Cumbaa (2017). "A new Early Devonian (Emsian) arthrodire from the Northwest Territories, Canada, and its significance for paleogeographic reconstruction". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 54 (5): 461–476. Bibcode:2017CaJES..54..461S. doi:10.1139/cjes-2017-0013. hdl:1807/76893.
^Christopher J. Duffin; David J. Ward (2017). "A new janassid petalodont chondrichthyan from the Early Carboniferous of Derbyshire, UK". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 128 (5–6): 809–814. Bibcode:2017PrGA..128..809D. doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2017.06.008.
^Sergio Bogan; Federico L. Agnolin; Rodrigo A. Otero; Federico Brissón Egli; Mario E. Suárez; Sergio Soto-Acuña; Fernando E. Novas (2017). "A new species of the genus Echinorhinus (Chondrichthyes, Echinorhiniformes) from the Upper Cretaceous of southern South America (Argentina-Chile)". Cretaceous Research. 78: 89–94. Bibcode:2017CrRes..78...89B. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.05.020. hdl:11336/49452.
^ abcJules Chabain; Pierre-Olivier Antoine; Ali J. Altamirano-Sierra; Laurent Marivaux; François Pujos; Rodolfo Salas Gismondi; Sylvain Adnet (2017). "Cenozoic batoids from Contamana (Peruvian Amazonia) with focus on freshwater potamotrygonins and their paleoenvironmental significance". Geobios. 50 (5–6): 389–400. Bibcode:2017Geobi..50..389C. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2017.10.003. hdl:11336/155889.
^Jürgen Pollerspöck; Nicolas Straube (2017). A new deep-sea elasmobranch fauna from the Central Paratethys (Neuhofener Beds, Mitterdorf, near Passau, Germany, Early Miocene, Middle Burdigalian). Vol. 90. pp. 27–53. doi:10.5282/ubm/epub.40476. ISBN978-3-946705-02-4. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
^Victor E. Pauliv; Agustín G. Martinelli; Heitor Francischini; Paula Dentzien-Dias; Marina B. Soares; Cesar L. Schultz; Ana M. Ribeiro (2017). "The first Western Gondwanan species of Triodus Jordan 1849: A new Xenacanthiformes (Chondrichthyes) from the late Paleozoic of Southern Brazil". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 80: 482–493. Bibcode:2017JSAES..80..482P. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2017.09.007.
^ abcdefghijklmnWerner Schwarzhans; Daphne E. Lee; Henry J. L. Gard (2017). "Otoliths reveal diverse fish communities in Late Oligocene estuarine to deep-water paleoenvironments in southern Zealandia". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 60 (4): 433–464. Bibcode:2017NZJGG..60..433S. doi:10.1080/00288306.2017.1365734. S2CID135318918.
^ abcdefghWerner Schwarzhans (2017). "A review of otoliths collected by W. Weiler from the Badenian of Romania and by B. Strashimirov from Badenian equivalents of Bulgaria". Cainozoic Research. 17 (2): 167–191.
^Katherine E. Bemis; James C. Tyler; William E. Bemis; Kishor Kumar; Rajendra Singh Rana; Thierry Smith (2017). "A gymnodont fish jaw with remarkable molariform teeth from the early Eocene of Gujarat, India (Teleostei, Tetraodontiformes)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (6): e1369422. Bibcode:2017JVPal..37E9422B. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1369422. S2CID135007619.
^Soledad Gouiric-Cavalli; Ana M. Zavattieri; Pedro R. Gutierrez; Bárbara Cariglino; Lucía Balarino (2017). "Increasing the fish diversity of the Triassic faunas of Gondwana: a new redfieldiiform (Actinopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of Argentina and its palaeobiogeographical implications". Papers in Palaeontology. 3 (4): 559–581. Bibcode:2017PPal....3..559G. doi:10.1002/spp2.1089. hdl:11336/57303. S2CID134580710.
^Oksana Vernygora; Alison M. Murray; Javier Luque; Mary Luz Parra Ruge; María Euridice Paramo Fonseca (2017). "A new Cretaceous dercetid fish (Neoteleostei: Aulopiformes) from the Turonian of Colombia". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16 (12): 1057–1071. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1391884. S2CID133883433.
^ abMónica Núñez-Flores; Ascanio D. Rincón; Andrés Solórzano; Leonardo Sánchez; Carlos Cáceres (2017). "Fish-otoliths from the early Miocene of the Castillo Formation, Venezuela: a view into the proto-Caribbean teleostean assemblages". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 29 (8): 1019–1030. Bibcode:2017HBio...29.1019N. doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1282474. S2CID89625719.
^Bettina Reichenbacher; Růžena Gregorová; Katarína Holcová; Radek Šanda; Jasna Vukić; Tomáš Přikryl (2017). "Discovery of the oldest Gobius (Teleostei, Gobiiformes) from a marine ecosystem of Early Miocene age". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16 (6): 493–513. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1313323. S2CID90418353.
^Oleksandr Kovalchuk; Ewa Świdnicka; Krzysztof Stefaniak (2019). "A new record of Gobius jarosi (Teleostei, Gobiidae) from the Early Miocene of Poland with inference to paleogeography and palaeoecology of the Carpathian Basin". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 31 (10): 1394–1401. doi:10.1080/08912963.2018.1457032. S2CID90671719.
^Ionuţ Grădianu; Tomáš Přikryl; Růžena Gregorová; Antony S. Harold (2017). "†Gonostoma dracula sp. nov. (Teleostei, Gonostomatidae) from the Oligocene deposits of the Central Paratethys (Romania): earliest occurrence of the modern bristlemouths". Bulletin of Geosciences. 92 (3): 323–336. doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1683.
^Jure Žalohar; Tomaž Hitij (2017). "The first known fossil record of pipehorses (Teleostei: Syngnathidae: Haliichthyinae) from the Miocene Coprolitic Horizon from the Tunjice Hills, Slovenia". Annales de Paléontologie. 103 (2): 113–125. Bibcode:2017AnPal.103..113Z. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2017.04.001.
^V. V. Bulanov; A. V. Minikh; V. K. Golubev (2022). "Minicholepis primus gen. et sp. nov., a New Eurynotoidiform Fish (Actinopterygii) from the Permian of European Russia". Paleontological Journal. 56 (11): 1363–1371. Bibcode:2022PalJ...56.1363B. doi:10.1134/S0031030122110041. S2CID256618572.
^Louis Taverne; Luigi Capasso (2017). "Italophiopsis derasmoi gen. and sp. nov. (Ionoscopiformes, Italophiopsidae fam. nov.) from the Cretaceous of Pietraroja (Italy)". Thalassia Salentina (Data Set). 39: 9–24. doi:10.1285/i15910725v39p9.
^Kleyton M. Cantalice; Jesús Alvarado-Ortega (2017). "Kelemejtubus castroi, gen. et sp. nov., an ancient percomorph (Teleostei, Actinopterygii) from the Paleocene marine deposits near Palenque, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (6): e1383265. Bibcode:2017JVPal..37E3265C. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1383265. S2CID90104690.
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^Arjan Mann; David Rudkin; David C. Evans; Marc Laflamme (2017). "A large onychodontiform (Osteichthyes: Sarcopterygii) apex predator from the Eifelian-aged Dundee Formation of Ontario, Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 54 (3): 233–241. Bibcode:2017CaJES..54..233M. doi:10.1139/cjes-2016-0119. hdl:1807/75619.
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^Giuseppe Marramà; Cristina Lombardo; Andrea Tintori; Giorgio Carnevale (2017). "Redescription of "Perleidus" (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii) from the Early Triassic of northwestern Madagascar". Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 123 (2): 219–242. doi:10.13130/2039-4942/8328.
^Nicholas R. Longrich (2017). "A Stem Lepidosireniform Lungfish (Sarcopterygia: Dipnoi) from the Upper Eocene of Libya, North Africa and implications for Cenozoic lungfish evolution". Gondwana Research. 42: 140–150. Bibcode:2017GondR..42..140L. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2016.09.007.
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