Ainia (fish)

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Ainia
Temporal range: Early Toarcian [1]
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Domain: Eukaryota
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

Ainia is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived during the early Toarcian stage of the Early Jurassic epoch. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 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.