Biology:Amiopsis

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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes

Amiopsis
Temporal range: Tithonian–Cenomanian
Amiopsis lepidota 2.jpg
Amiopsis lepidota
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Clade: Halecomorphi
Order: Amiiformes
Family: Amiidae
Subfamily: Amiopsinae
Grande and Bemis, 1998
Genus: Amiopsis
Kner, 1863
Type species
Amiopsis prisca
Kner, 1863
Synonyms
  • Urocles

Amiopsis is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish belonging to the family Amiidae.[1] Fossils are known from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone, Germany (A. lepidota), the Early Cretaceous Purbeck Group, England (A. damoni), La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, Spain (A. woodwardi) and Bernnissant Iguanodon locality, Belgium (A. dolloi) and the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of the Balkans (A. prisca type species). The monophyly of the genus is questionable, due to it being based on a single character, "the presence of three or more lateral fossae on each side of most abdominal centra". Remains previously assigned to this genus from the Early Cretaceous Las Hoyas, Spain have been moved into the new genus Hispanamia.[2]

See also

  • Prehistoric fish
  • List of prehistoric bony fish

References

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