Ainia (fish)

Ainia Temporal range: Late Kimmeridgian [1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Fossil specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Clade:	Halecomorphi
Order:	† Ionoscopiformes
Genus:	† Ainia Jordan, 1919
Species:	†A. armata
Binomial name
†Ainia armata (Wagner, 1846 [originally Lepidotus ])
Synonyms
CallopterusThiollière, 1858 ( nomen nudum ) [2]

Ainia is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived during the Kimmeridgian stage of the Late Jurassic epoch. It contains a single species, A. armata, known from the famous Solnhofen Limestone of Germany. ^{[1] [3]} It is a distant relative of the bowfin, although it is more closely related to genera such as Caturus and Osteorachis . ^{[4] [5]}

See also

• Paleontology portal
• Fish portal

• List of prehistoric bony fish genera

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 2009-02-27.
2. Rauhut, O. W. M.; López-Arbarello, A.; Röper, M.; Rothgaenger, M. (2017). "Vertebrate fossils from the Kimmeridgian of Brunn: the oldest fauna from the Solnhofen Archipelago (Late Jurassic, Bavaria, Germany)" (PDF). Zitteliana. 89: 305–329.
3. "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
4. López-Arbarello, Adriana; Sferco, Emilia (2018). "Neopterygian phylogeny: the merger assay". Royal Society Open Science. 5 (3) 172337. Bibcode:2018RSOS....572337L. doi:10.1098/rsos.172337. ISSN   2054-5703. PMC   5882744 . PMID   29657820.
5. Ebert, Martin (2018-01-02). "Cerinichthys koelblae, gen. et sp. nov., from the Upper Jurassic of Cerin, France, and its phylogenetic setting, leading to a reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of Halecomorphi (Actinopterygii)" . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 38 (1) e1420071. Bibcode:2018JVPal..38E0071E. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1420071. ISSN   0272-4634. S2CID   89886438.