Brachypareion

Brachypareion Temporal range: Pennsylvanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	†Palaeonisciformes (?)
Genus:	†Brachypareion Kazantseva-Selezneva 1980
Species:	†B. insperatum
Binomial name
†Brachypareion insperatum Kazantseva-Selezneva, 1980

Brachypareion is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Pennsylvanian epoch.[1] It contains a single species, B. insperatum, known from the Saur Mountains of Kazakhstan.[2] It is placed in the paraphyletic group Palaeonisciformes.[3]

See also

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish

References

1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
2. "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
3. "IRMNG - Brachypareion Kazantseva-Selezneva, 1980†". irmng.org. Retrieved 2024-04-02.