Meemannia

Meemannia Temporal range: Devonian
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Genus:	†Meemannia
Species:	†M. eos
Binomial name
†Meemannia eos Zhu, Yu, Wang, Zhao & Jia, 2006

Meemannia is a genus of extinct bony fish from the early Devonian period. It was initially classified as a lobe-finned fish; however, a restudy conducted by Lu et al. (2016) indicates that it was actually an early-diverging ray-finned fish.[1] It was found in Yunnan, China. As preserved, it consists mainly of skull roofing bones and a partial otic region of the braincase. Its anatomy is unique in a number of features that resemble ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii), and more generalized jawed vertebrates.

It was described in the May 4, 2006 edition of Nature, and named after Meemann Chang.[2]

References

1. Jing Lu; Sam Giles; Matt Friedman; Jan L. den Blaauwen; Min Zhu (2016). "The Oldest Actinopterygian Highlights the Cryptic Early History of the Hyperdiverse Ray-Finned Fishes". Current Biology. 26 (12): 1602–1608. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.04.045. PMID 27212403.
2. Zhu, Min; Yu, Xiaobo; Wang, Wei; Zhao, Wenjin; Jia, Liantao (May 2006). "A primitive fish provides key characters bearing on deep osteichthyan phylogeny". Nature. 441 (7089): 77–80. Bibcode:2006Natur.441...77Z. doi:10.1038/nature04563. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 16672968. S2CID 1840338.