Knightia

Knightia eocaena

• North America ( Green River Formation )
• ? Eurasia ( Edirne - Süloglu Eastern Thrace, Turkey)

Knightia is an extinct genus of genuine bony fish of the family of herrings, which is mainly known from fossils from the Eocene Green River Formation in the U.S. state of Wyoming.

Knightia was a freshwater fish swarm of up to 25 centimeters in length and an important food for predators. He is always found in fossil materials. It is believed, therefore, that they are often events such as algal blooms fell victim.

The first fossils of Knightia were found in the 1840s by missionaries and researchers who traveled through the American West to tap Wyoming. The genus was named after the geologist Wilbur Clinton Knight. Knightia is the State Fossil of Wyoming.

Rückert- Ülkümen reported in 1994 by a Fund of Knightia sp. from the Neogene deposits in Süloğlu ( Eastern Thrace, Turkey). This would be the first discovery in Europe.

There are known the following methods of Branneri K., K. alta and the type species K. eoceana. " Knightia brasiliensis " from the " tertiary " Brazil has been made in 2010 by De Figueiredo due to anatomical differences in the genus Paleopiquitinga.