Amiopsis
| Amiopsis Temporal range:
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| Amiopsis lepidota | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Halecomorphi |
| Order: | Amiiformes |
| Family: | Amiidae |
| Subfamily: | †Amiopsinae Grande and Bemis, 1998 |
| Genus: | †Amiopsis Kner, 1863 |
| Type species | |
| Amiopsis prisca Kner, 1863
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Amiopsis is an extinct genus of freshwater and marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Amiidae, making it closely related to the modern bowfin.[1] Fossils are known from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone, Germany (A. lepidota), the Early Cretaceous Purbeck Group, England (A. damoni), La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, Spain (A. woodwardi) and Bernnissant Iguanodon locality, Belgium (A. dolloi) and the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of the Balkans (A. prisca type species). The monophyly of the genus is questionable, due to it being based on a single character, "the presence of three or more lateral fossae on each side of most abdominal centra". Remains previously assigned to this genus from the Early Cretaceous Las Hoyas, Spain have been moved into the new genus Hispanamia.[2]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ The Paleobiology Database Amiopsis entry
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- Amioidea
- Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
- Late Jurassic bony fish
- Cretaceous bony fish
- Late Jurassic fish of Europe
- Cretaceous fish of Europe
- Fossils of Belgium
- Fossils of Spain
- Fossils of England
- Fossils of Slovenia
- Solnhofen fauna
- Tithonian genus first appearances
- Cenomanian genus extinctions
- Fossil taxa described in 1863
- Ray-finned fish stubs
- Prehistoric bony fish stubs