Brachypareion
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Extinct genus of fishes
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Palaeonisciformes (?) |
| Genus: | †Brachypareion Kazantseva-Selezneva 1980 |
| Species: | †B. insperatum |
| Binomial name | |
| †Brachypareion insperatum Kazantseva-Selezneva, 1980 | |
Brachypareion is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Pennsylvanian epoch.[1] It contains a single species, B. insperatum, known from the Saur Mountains of Kazakhstan.[2] It is placed in the paraphyletic group Palaeonisciformes.[3]
References
- ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
- ↑ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
- ↑ "IRMNG - Brachypareion Kazantseva-Selezneva, 1980†". irmng.org. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
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