Pygopterus

Pygopterus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Wuchiapingian to Olenekian ages (late Permian to Early Triassic epochs) in what is now England, Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Saxony-Anhalt), Greenland and Svalbard (Spitsbergen).[2][3] It is one of the few genera of ray-finned fish known to cross the Permian-Triassic boundary.[3]

Pygopterus humboldti
Pygopterus humboldti fossil

Pygopterus
Temporal range:
P. humboldti fossil
(Museum of Paleontology, Tübingen)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
Family:
Pygopteridae
Genus:
Pygopterus

Agassiz, 1833
Type species
Palaeothrissium humboldti
Other species[1]
  • P. degeeri Stensiö, 1921
  • P. crecelli Wilser, 1923
  • P. gleerupi Aldinger, 1937
  • P. nielseni Aldinger, 1937

Synonyms

See also

References

  1. Schultze, Hans-Peter; Mickle, Kathryn E.; Poplin, Cecile; Hilton, Eric J.; Grande, Lance (2021). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, 8A. Actinopterygii I. Palaeoniscimorpha, Stem Neopterygii, Chondrostei. Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. p. 299. ISBN 978-3-89937-272-4.
  2. Aldinger, Hermann (1937). "Permische Ganoidfische aus Ostgrönland". Meddelelser om Grønland. 102 (3): 1–392.
  3. 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. S2CID 5332637.
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