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''Ophiopsiella'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric
The type species, ''Ophiopsiella procera'', described by Agassiz (1844), was previously considered by some authors to be the type species for the genus ''
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 ...
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Taxonomy
The type species, ''Ophiopsiella procera'', described by Agassiz (1844), was previously considered by some authors to be the type species for the genus ''Ophiopsis
''Ophiopsis'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ophiopsidae. Specimens are known from the Tithonian-age Solnhofen Formation of Bavaria, Germany.
Taxonomy
The type species, ''Ophiopsis muensteri'', was pre ...
''. However, Lane and Ebert (2015) noted that ''Ophiopsis'' originally included ''O. muensteri'' only when first erected by Agassiz (1834), so they erected the new genus ''Ophiopsiella'' for ''Ophiopsis procera'', referring ''"Ophiopsis" attenuata'' Wagner (1863), ''"Ophiopsis" penicillata'' Agassiz (1843), ''"Ophiopsis" breviceps'' Egerton (1852), ''"Ophiopsis" dorsalis'' Agassiz (1843), ''"Ophiopsis" montsechensis'' Wenz (1968) and ''"Ophiopsis" lepturus'' Bellotti (1857) to the genus.Lane, J. A. & Ebert, M., 2015: A taxonomic reassessment of ''Ophiopsis'' (Halecomorphi, Ionoscopiformes), with a revision of Upper Jurassic species from the Solnhofen Archipelago, and a new genus of Ophiopsidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 35 (1): e883238. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2014.883238
See also
*Prehistoric fish
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Prehistoric fish are early fish that are known only from fossil records. They are the earliest known vertebrates, and include the first and extinct fish that lived through the Cambrian to the Quaternary. The study of prehistoric fish is ...
* List of prehistoric bony fish
This list of prehistoric bony fish is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all Genus, genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be bony fish (class Osteichthyes), excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includ ...
References
Ionoscopiformes Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Jurassic bony fish Jurassic fish of Europe {{Paleo-rayfinned-fish-stub