Beishanichthys

Beishanichthys; Temporal range: Early Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Superclass:	Osteichthyes
Class:	Actinopterygii
Subclass:	Cladistia[1]
Order:	Scanilepiformes
Genus:	Beishanichthys; Xu & Gao, 2011
Species
	B. brevicaudalis Xu & Gao, 2011 (type);

Beishanichthys is an extinct genus of scanilepiform bony fish which existed in Gansu Province, China during the early Triassic period. It is based on fossils from the Lower Triassic lake deposits exposed in Beishan area. It was first named by Guang-Hui Xu, Ke-Qin Gao in 2011 and the type species is Beishanichthys brevicaudalis.^[2]

References

↑ Sam Giles; Guang-Hui Xu; Thomas J. Near; Matt Friedman (2017). "Early members of 'living fossil' lineage imply later origin of modern ray-finned fishes". Nature. 549 (7671): 265–268. doi:10.1038/nature23654.
↑ Guang-Hui Xu, Ke-Qin Gao (2011). "A new scanilepiform from the Lower Triassic of northern Gansu Province, China, and phylogenetic relationships of non-teleostean Actinopterygii". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (3): 595–612. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00645.x.

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[1] Sam Giles; Guang-Hui Xu; Thomas J. Near; Matt Friedman (2017). "Early members of 'living fossil' lineage imply later origin of modern ray-finned fishes". Nature. 549 (7671): 265–268. doi:10.1038/nature23654.

[Beishanichthys-2] Guang-Hui Xu, Ke-Qin Gao (2011). "A new scanilepiform from the Lower Triassic of northern Gansu Province, China, and phylogenetic relationships of non-teleostean Actinopterygii". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (3): 595–612. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00645.x.