Beishanichthys
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| Beishanichthys Temporal range: Early Triassic, | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Scanilepiformes |
| Genus: | †Beishanichthys Xu & Gao, 2011 |
| Species: | †B. brevicaudalis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Beishanichthys brevicaudalis Xu & Gao, 2011 | |
Beishanichthys is an extinct genus of freshwater ray-finned fish which existed in Gansu Province, China during the Olenekian age of the early Triassic period. It contains a single species, B. brevicaudalis, first named by Guang-Hui Xu, Ke-Qin Gao in 2011 based on fossils from the Lower Triassic lake deposits exposed in northern Gansu, China.[1][2] It is considered a scanilepiform, a group of early cladistians related to the modern bichirs, although Beishanichthys was not incorporated into the analyses that found this phylogenetic placement among the cladistians.[3]
