Beishanichthys Temporal range:
Early Triassic,
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | † Scanilepiformes |
Genus: | †
Beishanichthys Xu & Gao, 2011 |
Species: | †B. brevicaudalis
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Binomial name | |
†Beishanichthys brevicaudalis Xu & Gao, 2011
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Beishanichthys is an extinct genus of freshwater ray-finned fish which existed in Gansu Province, China during the Olenekian age of the early Triassic period. It contains a single species, B. brevicaudalis, first named by Guang-Hui Xu, Ke-Qin Gao in 2011 based on fossils from the Lower Triassic lake deposits exposed in Beishan area. [1] [2] It is considered a scanilepiform, a group of early cladistians related to the modern bichirs, although Beishanichthys was not incorporated into the analyses that found this phylogenetic placement among the cladistians. [3]