Bourbonnella

Bourbonnella
Temporal range: early Pennsylvanian-Sakmarian
Bourbonnella sottyi fossil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: †Aeduelliformes
Family: †Aeduellidae
Genus: †Bourbonnella
Heyler, 1967
Type species
†Bourbonnella guilloti
Heyler 1967
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]

  • †B. fourrieri Poplin, 2001 - Late Pennsylvanian (Stephanian) of France
  • †B. guilloti Heyler, 1967 - Early Permian (Asselian) of France
  • †B. hirsuta Štamberg, 2007 - Early Permian (Sakmarian) of the Czech Republic
  • †B. jocelynae Mickle, 2011[1] - Early Pennsylvanian (Bashkirian) of the United States (Utah)
  • †B. sottyi Anonymous, 1972 - Late Pennsylvanian (Stephanian) of France

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]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Mickle, Kathryn E. (2011). "The early actinopterygian fauna of the Manning Canyon Shale Formation (upper Mississippian, lower Pennsylvanian) of Utah, U.S.A." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (5): 962–980. Bibcode:2011JVPal..31..962M. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.595622. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 129224357.
  2. ^ Romano, Carlo; Koot, Martha B.; Kogan, Ilja; Brayard, Arnaud; Minikh, Alla V.; Brinkmann, Winand; Bucher, Hugo; Kriwet, Jürgen (2016). "Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution". Biological Reviews. 91 (1): 106–147. doi:10.1111/brv.12161. PMID 25431138. S2CID 5332637.
  3. ^ a b "PBDB". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
  4. ^ Poplin, Cécile (2001). "Le genre Bourbonnella (Actinopterygii, Aeduellidae) : révision et description d'une nouvelle espèce du Stéphanien (Carbonifère supérieur) de Montceau-les-Mines (Massif Central, France)". Annales de Paléontologie. 87 (4): 231–248. doi:10.1016/s0753-3969(01)80012-4. ISSN 0753-3969.

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