Eichstaettia
Extinct genus of fishes
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Eichstaettia ("of Eichstätt") is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish that lived during the early Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic epoch.[1][2] It contains a single species, E. mayri from the Eichstätt Formation of Germany, which is part of the wider Solnhofen Limestone.[3] It was an early stem-group elopiform, making it distantly related to modern tarpons and ladyfish.[4][5] It was initially described as a species of Anaethalion.[2]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Elopiformes |
| Genus: | †Eichstaettia Arratia, 1987 |
| Species: | †E. mayri |
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| †Eichstaettia mayri (Nybelin, 1967) | |
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