Biology:Westollia
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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes
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| Family: | †Aeduellidae
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| Genus: | †Westollia White & Moy-Thomas, 1940
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| †Lepidopterus crassus Pohlig, 1892
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Westollia is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Asselian age (Cisuralian/early Permian) in what is now Thuringia, Germany.[1][2]
The type and only species, Westollia crassa, was first described as Lepidopterus crassus, but because this genus name was preoccupied, a new genus name was given, Westollia, honoring Thomas Stanley Westoll.[3]
See also
- Prehistoric fish
- List of prehistoric bony fish
References
- ↑ "Palaeonisciformes". Paleobiology Database. http://paleodb.org/bridge.pl?a=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=35057&is_real_user=1. Retrieved 19 Nov 2012.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ White, Errol Ivor; Moy-Thomas, James Alan (1941). "XXV. — Notes on the nomenclature of fossil fishes, 3. Homonyms M–Z". Journal of Natural History, Series 11 7: 395–400. doi:10.1080/03745481.1941.9727941..
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q7989341 entry
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