Cycloptychius
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| Cycloptychius Temporal range: Possible Artinskian occurrence
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Family: | †Rhadinichthyidae |
| Genus: | †Cycloptychius Young, 1866 |
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Cycloptychius is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater & marine ray-finned fish that existed throughout much of the Carboniferous period in Eurasia, and possibly into the Early Permian in South Africa.[2][1] It was a member of the Rhadinichthyidae, a family of basal ray-finned fish that was formerly placed in the now-paraphyletic order Palaeonisciformes.[3][4]
It contains the following species:[5]
- †C. bidens Matveeva, 1958 - Early Carboniferous (Tournaisian) of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia (Os’kin Formation)
- †C. carbonarius Young, 1866 - Late Carboniferous (Moscovian) of England (North Staffordshire Coalfield)
- †C. concentricus Traquair, 1881 - Early Carboniferous (Viséan) of Scotland (Glencartholm Volcanic Beds)
- ?†C. loocki Evans, 2005 - Early Permian (Artinskian) of South Africa (Whitehill Formation)[6]
See also
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References
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Categories:
- Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
- Carboniferous bony fish
- Permian bony fish
- Carboniferous fish of Europe
- Carboniferous fish of Asia
- Tournaisian life
- Viséan genera
- Moscovian life
- Artinskian genus extinctions
- Carboniferous England
- Fossils of England
- Fossils of Russia
- Carboniferous Scotland
- Fossils of Scotland
- Fossils of South Africa
- Fossil taxa described in 1866
- Prehistoric bony fish stubs