Westollia
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Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes
| Westollia | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Aeduelliformes |
| Family: | †Aeduellidae |
| Genus: | †Westollia White & Moy-Thomas, 1940 |
| Type species | |
| †Lepidopterus crassus Pohlig, 1892
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Westollia is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Asselian age (Cisuralian/early Permian) in what is now Thuringia, Germany.[1] [2]
The type and only species, Westollia crassa, was first described as Lepidopterus crassus, but because this genus name was preoccupied, a new genus name was given, Westollia, honoring Thomas Stanley Westoll.[3]
References
[edit ]- ^ "Palaeonisciformes". Paleobiology Database . Retrieved 19 Nov 2012.
- ^ Romano, Carlo; Koot, Martha B.; Kogan, Ilja; Brayard, Arnaud; Minikh, Alla V.; Brinkmann, Winand; Bucher, Hugo; Kriwet, Jürgen (2016). "Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution". Biological Reviews. 91 (1): 106–147. doi:10.1111/brv.12161. PMID 25431138. S2CID 5332637.
- ^ White, Errol Ivor; Moy-Thomas, James Alan (1941). "XXV. — Notes on the nomenclature of fossil fishes, 3. Homonyms M–Z". Journal of Natural History. Series 11. 7: 395–400. doi:10.1080/03745481.1941.9727941..
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