Bourbonnella Temporal range:
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Bourbonnella sottyi fossil | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | † Aeduelliformes |
Family: | † Aeduellidae |
Genus: | †
Bourbonnella Heyler, 1967 |
Type species | |
†Bourbonnella guilloti Heyler 1967
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Species | |
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Bourbonnella is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater and coastal marine ray-finned fish that lived during the late Mississippian ( Carboniferous) and Asselian ( Cisuralian/early Permian epoch) in what is now Burgundy ( Autun, France), the Czech Republik (Boskovice Graben), and Utah (United States), with other remains known from elsewhere. [1] [2] The genus was named by Daniel Heyler in 1967.
It contains the following species: [3]
Indeterminate remains are known from the Carboniferous of the US ( New Mexico) and Spain. [3] Specimens from Germany were found in 2001 to belong to Aeduella. [4]
The species B. jocelynae is the earliest known representative of the family Aeduellidae. [1]
Bourbonnella Temporal range:
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Bourbonnella sottyi fossil | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | † Aeduelliformes |
Family: | † Aeduellidae |
Genus: | †
Bourbonnella Heyler, 1967 |
Type species | |
†Bourbonnella guilloti Heyler 1967
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Species | |
See text |
Bourbonnella is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater and coastal marine ray-finned fish that lived during the late Mississippian ( Carboniferous) and Asselian ( Cisuralian/early Permian epoch) in what is now Burgundy ( Autun, France), the Czech Republik (Boskovice Graben), and Utah (United States), with other remains known from elsewhere. [1] [2] The genus was named by Daniel Heyler in 1967.
It contains the following species: [3]
Indeterminate remains are known from the Carboniferous of the US ( New Mexico) and Spain. [3] Specimens from Germany were found in 2001 to belong to Aeduella. [4]
The species B. jocelynae is the earliest known representative of the family Aeduellidae. [1]