Achoania

Achoania Temporal range: Early Devonian (Lochkovian) PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Genus:	†Achoania Zhu, Yu & Ahlberg, 2001
Type species
†Achoania jarvikii Zhu, Yu & Ahlberg, 2001

Achoania is an extinct genus of primitive bony fish which lived during the Early Devonian period. It is known from a skull discovered in the Xitun Formation of Yunnan, China.[1] While originally considered to be a lobe-finned fish, later studies suggested that it may be a stem-group Osteichthyes instead.[2]

See also

• Psarolepis

References

1. Zhu, Min; Yu, Xiaobo; Ahlberg, Per E. (2001). "A primitive sarcopterygian fish with an eyestalk". Nature. 410 (6824): 81–84. doi:10.1038/35065078. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 11242045. S2CID 4416579.
2. King, Benedict (July 2019). "Which morphological characters are influential in a Bayesian phylogenetic analysis? Examples from the earliest osteichthyans". Biology Letters. 15 (7): 20190288. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2019.0288. ISSN 1744-9561. PMC 6684994. PMID 31311486.