Cyranorhis Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Family: | † Rhadinichthyidae |
Genus: | †
Cyranorhis Lund & Poplin, 1997 |
Species: | †C. bergeraci
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Binomial name | |
†Cyranorhis bergeraci Lund & Poplin, 1997
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Cyranorhis is an extinct genus of prehistoric 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]
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]
Cyranorhis Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Family: | † Rhadinichthyidae |
Genus: | †
Cyranorhis Lund & Poplin, 1997 |
Species: | †C. bergeraci
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Binomial name | |
†Cyranorhis bergeraci Lund & Poplin, 1997
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Cyranorhis is an extinct genus of prehistoric 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]
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]