Biology:Gyracanthidae

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Short description: Extinct family of acanthodian

Gyracanthidae
Temporal range: 419.2–307.0 Ma
Lochkovian - Moscovian
Gyracanthus NT small.jpg
Reconstruction of Gyracanthus
Scientific classification e
Missing taxonomy template (fix): Climatiiformes/?
Family: Gyracanthidae
Woodward, 1906
Genera

Gyracanthus
Gyracanthides

Gyracanthidae is an family of extinct fish belonging to the class Acanthodii, known from early Devonian to late Carboniferous. Members are characterized by large, broad-based, paired fin spines with the pectoral fin spines having a distinct longitudinal curvature.[1] Although it is originally classified in order Climatiiformes, but later study questioned this.[2]

References

  1. Warren, Anne; Currie, Bryan P.; Burrow, Carole; Turner, Susan (2000-06-27). [0225:ARAROG2.0.CO;2 "A redescription and reinterpretation of Gyracanthides murrayi Woodward 1906 (Acanthodii, Gyracanthidae) from the Lower Carboniferous of the Mansfield Basin, Victoria, Australia"]. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20 (2): 225–242. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0225:ARAROG2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 0272-4634. https://doi.org/10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0225:ARAROG]2.0.CO;2. 
  2. Turner, Susan; Burrow, Carole J.; Warren, Anne (2005). "Gyracanthides hawkinsi sp. nov. (Acanthodii, Gyracanthidae) from the Lower Carboniferous of Queensland, Australia, with a Review of Gyracanthid Taxa" (in en). Palaeontology 48 (5): 963–1006. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2005.00479.x. ISSN 0031-0239. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2005.00479.x. 


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