Ainia (fish)

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Ainia
Temporal range: Late Kimmeridgian [1]
File:Callopterus armatus.JPG
Fossil specimen
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Clade: Halecomorphi
Order: Ionoscopiformes
Genus: Ainia
Jordan, 1919
Species:
A. armata
Binomial name
Ainia armata
(Wagner, 1846 [originally Lepidotus])
Synonyms

Ainia is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived during the Kimmeridgian stage of the Late Jurassic epoch. It contains a single species, A. armata, known from the famous Solnhofen Limestone of Germany.[1][3] It is a distant relative of the bowfin, although it is more closely related to genera such as Caturus and Osteorachis.[4][5]

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