Biology:Cyranorhis

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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes


Cyranorhis
Temporal range: Serpukhovian[1]
Cyranorhis.jpg
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Class:
Order:
Family:
Rhadinichthyidae[1]
Genus:
Cyranorhis

Lund & Poplin, 1997
Binomial name
Cyranorhis bergeraci
Lund & Poplin, 1997

Cyranorhis is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Serpukhovian age of the Carboniferous period in what is now Montana, United States.[1]

Classification

Based on the cladistic analysis by Ren & Xu,[2] Cyranorhis was recovered in a sister group relationship with the Triassic Pteronisculus.

See also

  • Prehistoric fish
  • List of prehistoric bony fish

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Schultze, Hans-Peter; Mickle, Kathryn E.; Poplin, Cecile; Hilton, Eric J.; Grande, Lance (2021). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, 8A. Actinopterygii I. Palaeoniscimorpha, Stem Neopterygii, Chondrostei. Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. pp. 299. ISBN 978-3-89937-272-4. 
  2. Ren, Yi; Xu, Guang-Hui (2021). "A new species of Pteronisculus from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) of Luoping, Yunnan, China, and phylogenetic relationships of early actinopterygian fishes". Vertebrata PalAsiatica 59: 169–199. doi:10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.210518. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353373478. 

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