Mimipiscis
Mimipiscis is a fossil genus of very primitive ray-finned fishes from the Upper Devonian Gneudna and Gogo Formations of Western Australia.[1]
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Mimipiscis Eusthenopteron skulls quadratojugal | |
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Genus: | Mimipiscis Choo 2011 |
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Mimipiscis toombsi Gardiner & Bartram, 1977 | |
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M. toombsi Gardiner & Bartram, 1977 | |
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The genus was initially described by Gardiner & Bartram as Mimia in 1977, a junior homonym of the skipper butterfly genus Mimia which was already established by Evans in 1953.
See also
- Prehistoric fish
- List of prehistoric bony fish
References
- Choo, Brian (2012). "Revision of the actinopterygian genus Mimipiscis (=Mimia) from the Upper Devonian Gogo Formation of Western Australia and the interrelationships of the early Actinopterygii". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 102: 77–104. doi:10.1017/s1755691011011029. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
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