Platysiagidae

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Platysiagidae
Temporal range: Early Triassic–Early Jurassic
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Subclass: Neopterygii
Order: Platysiagiformes
Family: Platysiagidae
Brough, 1939

Platysiagidae is an extinct family of stem-neopterygian ray-finned fish which lived from the Early Triassic to the Early Jurassic. It includes the genera Helmolepis, Platysiagum and possibly .[1] The family was formerly placed within the paraphyletic order Perleidiformes, but it is now considered to belong to the separate, monotypic order Platysiagiformes.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Wen, W.; Hu, S. X.; Zhang, Q. Y.; Benton, M. J.; Kriwet, J.; Chen, Z. Q.; Zhou, C. Y.; Xie, T.; Huang, J. Y. (2019). "A new species of Platysiagum from the Luoping Biota (Anisian, Middle Triassic, Yunnan, South China) reveals the relationship between Platysiagidae and Neopterygii". Geological Magazine. 156 (4): 669–682. doi:10.1017/S0016756818000079. hdl:1983/67be3458-c375-4742-b7b0-22e52c7b5040.
  2. ^ Xu, G. H. (2020). "Feroxichthys yunnanensis gen. et sp. nov. (Colobodontidae, Neopterygii), a large durophagous predator from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) Luoping Biota, eastern Yunnan, China". PeerJ. 8: e10229. doi:10.7717/peerj.10229. PMC 7583626.


Retrieved from ""