Aetheretmon

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Aetheretmon
Temporal range: early Mississippian
Aetheretmon valentiacum.jpg
Aetheretmon valentiacum fossil
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Strepheoschemidae
Genus: Aetheretmon
White, 1927
Species:
A. valentiacum
Binomial name
Aetheretmon valentiacum
White, 1927
Synonyms

AetherthmonWhite, 1927

Aetheretmon is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater and estuarine ray-finned fish that lived during the early Mississippian (Dinantian) age in what is now Europe, including Scotland, Belarus, and Russia. [1] It contains only the species A. valentiacum. [2] This genus has the oldest known actinopterygian growth series, indicating that juvenile Aetheretmon had tails similar to those of modern teleosts, but unlike teleosts, their upper tails continued to grow throughout their lives instead of truncating early. [3] [4] Initially classified as a "palaeoniscid", later studies have recovered it as a stem-neopterygian, or more recently a stem-actinopteran. [2] [3]

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