Gardinerichthys
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| Gardinerichthys Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Paramblypteriformes |
| Genus: | †Gardinerichthys Heyler, 1976 |
| Type species | |
| †Gardinerichthys latus (Gardiner, 1963) | |
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Gardinerichthys is an extinct genus of freshwater actinopterygian bony fish from the Cisuralian (early Permian) epoch of Germany (Rhineland-Palatine, Saarland), and the middle Permian of India (Jammu and Kashmir).[1] The type species, G. latus, was discovered in Asselian aged layers (Rotliegend).[1] The genus is named after British palaeontologist and zoologist Brian G. Gardiner (1932–2021), with the second part of the name meaning 'fish' in Greek: ἰχθῦς (ikhthûs).
The type specimen was originally thought to belong to the type species of Amblypterus, A. latus, but a reconstruction by Gardiner in 1963 determined it to be a different fish from Amblypterus. It was described as a new genus in 1976.[2]
