Biology:Phanerosteon

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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes


Phanerosteon
Temporal range: Serpukhovian-Gzhelian
†Phanerosteon phonax Carboniferous Bear Gulch.jpg
Phanerosteon phonax fossil
Scientific classification
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Animalia
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Genus:
Phanerosteon

Traquair, 1881
Type species
Phanerosteon mirabile
Traquair, 1881
Other species
  • P. phonax Lowney, 1980
  • P. ovensi (White, 1927)
Synonyms

Carboveles White, 1927[2]

Phanerosteon is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish from the Carboniferous period.[3] The type species, P. mirabile, was recovered from the Calciferous sandstone series (Pennsylvanian), Scotland.[4] A second species, P. phonax was described from the Serpukhovian aged Bear Gulch Limestone lagerstätte in Montana, United States.[5]

See also

  • Prehistoric fish
  • List of prehistoric bony fish

References

  1. "Palaeonisciformes". Paleobiology Database. http://paleodb.org/bridge.pl?a=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=35057&is_real_user=1. Retrieved 19 Nov 2012. 
  2. Gardiner, Brian G. (1985). "Actinopterygian fish from the Dinantian of Foulden, Berwickshire, Scotland". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 76: 61–67. doi:10.1017/S0263593300010312. 
  3. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: 560. http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class. Retrieved 2009-02-27. 
  4. Traquair, Ramsay H. (1881). "III.—Report on Fossil Fishes collected by the Geological Survey of Scotland in Eskdale and Liddesdale. Part I.—Ganoidei". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 30 (1): 15–71. doi:10.1017/S0080456800028970. 
  5. Lowney, Karen Anne (1980). Certain Bear Gulch (Namurian A, Montana) Actinopterygii (Osteichthyes) and a reevaluation of the evolution of the Paleozoic actinopterygians. Dissertation, New York University, New York, United States. https://www.proquest.com/openview/81af0a1be63830c69786d2aa26ab982b/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y. 

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