Bluefieldius

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Bluefieldius
Temporal range: Late Mississippian
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Holotype specimen
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Genus: Bluefieldius
Mickle, 2018
Species:
B. mercerensis
Binomial name
Bluefieldius mercerensis
Mickle, 2018

Bluefieldius is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Mississippian (Early Carboniferous) epoch in what is now West Virginia, United States. [1] It is known from a single fossil collected from the late Serpukhovian or early Viséan Bluefield Formation. [2] The type and only species (monotypy) is Bluefieldius mercerensis.

It has a "palaeoniscoid" body plan, although as that order is thought to be paraphyletic, it was described as an indeterminate actinopterygian. [2]

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References

  1. "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
  2. 1 2 Mickle, Kathryn E. (2018). "A new lower actinopterygian fish from the Upper Mississippian Bluefield Formation of West Virginia, USA". PeerJ. 6: e5533. doi: 10.7717/peerj.5533 . PMC   6119456 . PMID   30186696.