Cheirodopsis

Extinct genus of fishes

Cheirodopsis
Temporal range: Viséan[1]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Eurynotiformes
Family: Amphicentridae
Genus: Cheirodopsis
Traquair, 1881
Species:
C. geikiei
Binomial name
Cheirodopsis geikiei
Traquair, 1881

Cheirodopsis is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Viséan stage of the Mississippian epoch. It contains a single species, C. geikiei from what is now Glencartholm, Scotland.[2][3][4]

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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 2009-04-24.
  2. ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  3. ^ Moy-Thomas, J. A.; Dyne, M. Bradley (1938). "XVII.—The Actinopterygian Fishes from the Lower Carboniferous of Glencartholm, Eskdale, Dumfriesshire". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 59 (2): 437–480. doi:10.1017/S0080456800009170. ISSN 2053-5945.
  4. ^ Sallan, Lauren Cole; Coates, Michael I. (2013). "Styracopterid (Actinopterygii) ontogeny and the multiple origins of post-Hangenberg deep-bodied fishes: Early CArboniferous Styracopterid Fishes". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 169 (1): 156–199. doi:10.1111/zoj.12054.
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