Aeduella

Aeduella
Temporal range: Gzhelian-Sakmarian
Aeduella sp. fossil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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 freshwater ray-finned 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 Republic.[1][2]

The type and only species is Aeduella blainvillei.

References

  1. ^ "PERMIAN - Birth of a New World". Issuu. 2 March 2015. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
  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. S2CID 5332637.


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