Minjinia
Extinct species of fish
Minjinia Temporal range: Pragian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | †Placodermi |
Order: | †incertae sedis |
Genus: | †Minjinia Brazeau et al., 2020 |
Species: | †M. turgenensis |
Binomial name | |
†Minjinia turgenensis Brazeau et al., 2020 |
Minjinia turgenensis is a species of placoderm from the Devonian of Mongolia. It is known from a single specimen preserving part of the skull, including remains of endochondral bone, which indicates that a mineralised endoskeleton evolved before the split between bony and cartilaginous fish, and that it was lost in the latter group.[1]
Classification
In the phylogenetic analysis ran by Brazeau et al., M. turgenensis was found as the sister taxon of a clade formed by Entelognathus, Ramirosuarezia, Janusiscus and the crown gnathostomes. A cladogram simplified from their analysis is shown below:[1]
References
- ^ a b Brazeau, Martin D.; Giles, Sam; Dearden, Richard P.; Jerve, Anna; Ariunchimeg, Ya.; Zorig, E.; Sansom, Robert; Guillerme, Thomas; Castiello, Marco (7 September 2020). "Endochondral bone in an Early Devonian 'placoderm' from Mongolia". Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4 (11): 1477–1484. Bibcode:2020NatEE...4.1477B. doi:10.1038/s41559-020-01290-2. hdl:10044/1/82739. PMID 32895518.
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