Biology:Aeduella

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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes


Aeduella
Temporal range: Gzhelian-Sakmarian
Aeduella sp.JPG
Aeduella sp. fossil
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Aeduelliformes
Family: Aeduellidae
Genus: Aeduella
Westoll, 1937
Species:
A. blainvillei
Binomial name
Aeduella blainvillei
(Agassiz, 1833)
Synonyms

Palaeoniscus blainvillei Agassiz, 1833

Aeduella is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater bony fish that lived during the Gzhelian (Late Pennsylvanian, Carboniferous ) and Asselian-Sakmarian (Cisuralian/early Permian epoch) ages in what is now France (Auvergne, Burgundy), Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatine, Saarland), Switzerland (Basel-Landschaft, Zürich) and the Czech Republik.[1][2]

The type and only species is Aeduella blainvillei.

See also

  • Prehistoric fish
  • List of prehistoric bony fish

References

  1. "PERMIAN - Birth of a New World" (in en). 2 March 2015. https://issuu.com/wachtlermichael/docs/permian-wachtler-perner. 
  2. Romano, Carlo; Koot, Martha B.; Kogan, Ilja; Brayard, Arnaud; Minikh, Alla V.; Brinkmann, Winand; Bucher, Hugo; Kriwet, Jürgen (2016). "Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution". Biological Reviews 91 (1): 106–147. doi:10.1111/brv.12161. PMID 25431138. 

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