Hengnania
| Hengnania Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Pholidophoriformes |
| Genus: | †Hengnania Wang, 1977 |
| Species: | †H. gracilis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Hengnania gracilis Wang, 1977
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Hengnania is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater ray-finned fish from the Jurassic of Asia. It contains a single species, H. gracilis from the Early Jurassic of Hunan, China. It is considered a "pholidophoriform" of uncertain affinities.[1][2] Its fossils are common in the deposits in which it has been found.[3]
References
- ^ Taverne, Louis (2011). "Ostéologie et relations phylogénétiques de Steurbautichthys ("Pholidophophorus") aequatorialis gen. nov. (Teleostei, "Pholidophoriformes") du Jurassique moyen de Kisangani, en République Démocratique du Congo". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique - Bulletin van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen. 81: 129–173.
- ^ Arratia, G. (2013). "Morphology, taxonomy, and phylogeny of Triassic pholidophorid fishes (Actinopterygii, Teleostei)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (sup1): 1–138. Bibcode:2013JVPal..33S...1A. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.835642. S2CID 86605978.
- ^ Wang, Nianzhong (1977). "Jurassic Fish and their Stratigraphic significance from the Hengyang Region of Lingling Co., Hunan Province" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 15 (4).
External links
- Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database
- "Pachycormiformes". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved November 11, 2012.