| Gardinerpiscis Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Family: | † Karaunguriidae |
| Genus: | † Gardinerpiscis Romano & Kogan, 2015 |
| Species: | †G. akkolkensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Gardinerpiscis akkolkensis (Kazantseva-Selezneva, 1981) | |
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Gardinerpiscis is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater actinopterygian fish that lived during the Kungurian age of the early Permian epoch in the Kempir Formation of what is now Kazakhstan. [1] It was originally named "Gardineria" by Kazantseva-Selezneva (1981). [2] Because this genus name was already given to an extant scleractinian coral ( Gardineria Vaughan, 1907), [3] the new name Gardinerpiscis was erected for the Permian fish. [4] The genus includes a single species (monotypy): Gardinerpiscis akkolkensis. [5]
Gardinerpiscis is named after British palaeontologist and zoologist Brian G. Gardiner (1932 - 2021). The word part piscis is Latin for fish.
