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Dictyopyge

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Dictyopyge
Temporal range: Carnian[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Redfieldiiformes
Family: Redfieldiidae
Genus: Dictyopyge
Egerton, 1847
Species[1]
  • Dictyopyge macrurus Redfield, 1841
  • Dictyopyge meekeri Schaeffer and McDonald, 1978
Synonyms[2]
  • Dictopyge
  • Dictyopype

Dictyopyge is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater bony fish. Two species are recognized, D. macrurus and D. meekeri, which both lived during the Carnian age (Late Triassic) in what is now Virginia, United States.[1][3]

Several possibly unrelated species from the Triassic of Europe are provisionally referred to Dictyopyge ("D." rhenana, "D." socialis, "D." catoptera, "D." superstes), while three species from the Middle Triassic of Australia previously referred to Dictyopyge have been tentatively reallocated to the genus Brookvalia.[4]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. ^ "Dictyopyge". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
  3. ^ Olsen, Paul E.; McCune, Amy R.; Thomson, Keith S. (1982). "Correlation of the Early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup by vertebrates, principally fishes". American Journal of Science. 282 (1): 1–44. Bibcode:1982AmJS..282....1O. doi:10.2475/ajs.282.1.1..
  4. ^ 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.