Achoania
Extinct genus of fishes
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Achoania is an extinct genus of primitive bony fish which lived during the Early Devonian period. It is known from a skull discovered in the Xitun Formation of Yunnan, China.[1] While originally considered to be a lobe-finned fish, later studies suggested that it may be a stem-group Osteichthyes instead.[2]
| Achoania Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Osteichthyes |
| Genus: | †Achoania Zhu, Yu & Ahlberg, 2001 |
| Type species | |
| †Achoania jarvikii Zhu, Yu & Ahlberg, 2001 | |
