Biology:Axelia

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Short description: Extinct genus of coelacanths


Axelia
Temporal range: early Olenekian[1]
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Animalia
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Axelia

Stensiö, 1921
Type species
Axelia robusta
Stensiö, 1921
Other species
  • Axelia elegans Stensiö, 1921

Axelia is an extinct genus of prehistoric lobe-finned fish, which belonged to the family of Coelacanthidae. It lived during the Smithian (early Olenekian) age of the Early Triassic epoch in what is now Spitsbergen, Svalbard.[1][2] Fossils were found in the "Fish Niveau" of the Lusitaniadalen Member of the Vikinghøgda Formation.

Erik Stensiö named the genus after his brother Axel Andersson.[2]

See also

  • Sarcopterygii
  • List of sarcopterygians
  • List of prehistoric bony fish

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 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. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Stensiö, Erik (1921). Triassic fishes from Spitzbergen. Vienna: Adolf Holzhausen. pp. xxviii + 307. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.159141. 

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