ARRATIA, Gloria & Hans-Peter SCHULTZE (Herausgeber):Mesozoic Fishes 2 - Systematics and Fossil RecordContentsPreface 7 Acknowledgments 7 Barbara J. STAHL: Mesozoic holocephalians 9 Luis A. CIONE: First report of a Jurassic ray outside of Europe 21 Armin LEIDNER & Detlev THIES: Placoid scales and oral teeth of Late Jurassic elasmobranchs from Europe 29 William E. BEMIS & Lance GRANDE: Development of the median fins of the North American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula), and a reevaluation of the lateral fin-fold hypothesis 41 Eric J. HILTON & William E. BEMIS: Skeletal variation in shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) from the Connecticut River: Implications for comparative osteological studies of fossil and living fishes 69 Christopher FIELITZ, J. D. STEWART & Joan WIFFEN: +Aethocephalichthys hyainarhinos gen. et sp. nov., a new and enigmatic Late Cretaceous actinopterygian of North America and New Zealand 95 Sylvie WENZ: Pliodetes nigeriensis gen. et sp. nov., a new semionotid fish from the Lower Cretaceous of Gadoufaoua (Niger Republic): Phylogenetic comments 107 Gloria ARRATIA & Andrea TINTORI: The caudal skeleton of the Triassic actinopterygian +Prohalecites and its phylogenetic position 121 Detlev THIES & Annette HERZOG: New information on Dapedium LEACH 1822 (Actinopterygii, Semionotiformes) 143 J. Ralph NURSALL: The family +Mesturidae and the skull of pycnodont fishes 153 J. Ralph NURSALL: The pycnodontiform bauplan: The morphology of a successful taxon 189 J¿rgen KRIWET: Pycnodontid fishes (Neopterygii, Pycnodontiformes) from the Lower Cretaceous of U¿a (E-Spain) with comments on branchial teeth in pycnodontiform fishes 215 Paulo M. BRITO: Description of Aspidorhynchus arawaki from the Late Jurassic of Cuba (Actinopterygii: Halecostomi) 239 Paulo M. BRITO: The caudal skeleton of aspidorhynchids (Actinopterygii: Halecostomi): Phylogenetic implications 249 Gloria ARRATIA: The monophyly of Teleostei and stem-group teleosts. Consensus and disagreements 265 J. D. STEWART: A new genus of Saurodontidae (Teleostei: Ichthyodectiformes) from Upper Cretaceous rocks of the Western Interior of North America 335 Francisco J. POYATO-ARIZA: The elopiform fish Anaethalion angustus restored, with comments on individual variation 361 LI Guo-Qing & Mark V. H. WILSON: Early divergence of Hiodontiformes sensu stricto in East Asia and phylogeny of some Late Mesozoic teleosts from China 369 ZHANG Jiangyong & JIN Fan: A revision of +Tongxinichthys MA 1980 (Teleostei: Osteoglossomorpha) from the Lower Cretaceous of northern China 385 Allison MURRAY & Mark V. H. WILSON: Contributions of fossils to the phylogenetic relationships of the percopsiform fishes (Teleostei: Paracanthopterygii): order restored 397 Lance GRANDE & William E. BEMIS: Historical biogeography and historical paleoecology of Amiidae and other halecomorph fishes 413 Terry GRANDE: Distribution patterns and historical biogeography of gonorynchiform fishes (Teleostei: Ostariophysi) 425 Eugenia K. SYTCHEVSKAYA: Freshwater fish fauna from the Triassic of northern Asia 445 CHANG MEE-MANN: ¿Mid¿-Cretaceous fish faunas from northeast China 469 Tony B¿GIN: Middle Triassic marine fish faunas from Switzerland 481 Andrea TINTORI & Cristina LOMBARDO: Fish fauna from the Kalkschieferzone (Meride Limestone, uppermost Ladinian) of Ca¿ del Frate (Varese, N-Italy) 495 Francisco J. POYATO-ARIZA, Angela D. BUSCALIONI & Joan CARTANY¿: The Spanish Mesozoic record of osteichthyan fishes 505 Joan CARTANY¿: An overview of the Middle Triassic actinopterygians from Alcover, Mont-Ral and El Pinetell (Catalonia, Spain) 535 Didier B. DUTHEIL: Freshwater fish fauna from the Upper Cretaceous of Morocco 553 Gloria ARRATIA & Hans-Peter SCHULTZE: Mesozoic fishes from Chile 565 Alexander MUDROCH, Detlev THIES & Albrecht BAUMANN: 87SR/86SR analysis of Late Jurassic fish teeth. Implications for paleosalinity of fossil habitats 595