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]
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P. humboldti fossil (Museum of Paleontology, Tübingen) | |
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Family: | †Pygopteridae |
Genus: | †Pygopterus Agassiz, 1833 |
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†Palaeothrissium humboldti Blainville, 1818 | |
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Synonyms
- Pygopterus greenockii Traquair, 1866 → Nematoptychius greenockii (Traquair, 1866)[1]
References
- 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.
- Aldinger, Hermann (1937). "Permische Ganoidfische aus Ostgrönland". Meddelelser om Grønland. 102 (3): 1–392.
- 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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