''Strepheoschema'' is an

extinct Extinction is the termination of an organism by the death of its Endling, last member. A taxon may become Functional extinction, functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it loses the capacity to Reproduction, reproduce and ...

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...

that lived during the early Mississippian (

Tournaisian The Tournaisian is in the ICS geologic timescale the lowest stage or oldest age of the Mississippian, the oldest subsystem of the Carboniferous. The Tournaisian age lasted from Ma to Ma. It is preceded by the Famennian (the uppermost st ...

– Visean) in what is now

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, Scotland, and

Northumberland Northumberland ( ) is a ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North East England, on the Anglo-Scottish border, border with Scotland. It is bordered by the North Sea to the east, Tyne and Wear and County Durham to the south, Cumb ...

, England. Fossils were recovered from the

Ballagan Formation The Ballagan Formation is a Formation (geology), geologic formation in Scotland and England. It preserves fossils dating back to the early part of the Carboniferous Period (geology), period (Tournaisian – early Visean). Its name comes from the ...

(Cementstone Group).

References

External links

Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database

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Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Mississippian ray-finned fish of Europe Carboniferous Scotland Fossils of Scotland Carboniferous England Fossils of England {{Paleo-rayfinned-fish-stub