Cyranorhis
Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes
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Cyranorhis is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Serpukhovian age of the Carboniferous period. One species is known, C. bergeraci in the Bear Gulch Limestone what is now Montana, United States.[1][2] It is named after French novelist Cyrano de Bergerac.[3]
| Cyranorhis Temporal range: | |
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| C. bergeraci fossil, National Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Family: | †Rhadinichthyidae |
| Genus: | †Cyranorhis Lund & Poplin, 1997 |
| Species: | †C. bergeraci |
| Binomial name | |
| †Cyranorhis bergeraci Lund & Poplin, 1997 | |
Classification
It is a member of the Rhadinichthyidae, a family of basal ray-finned fish that was formerly placed in the now-paraphyletic order Palaeonisciformes.[4] Based on the cladistic analysis by Ren & Xu, Cyranorhis was recovered in a sister group relationship with the Triassic Pteronisculus which may thus represent a late-surviving rhadinichthyid.[5]
