Ophiopsis

Extinct genus of fishes

Ophiopsis
Ophiopsis muensteri fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Ionoscopiformes
Family:
Ophiopsidae
Genus:
Ophiopsis
Species:
O. muensteri
Binomial name
Ophiopsis muensteri
Agassiz, 1834

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 previously placed in Furo by several authors who mistakenly considered Ophiopsiella procera the Ophiopsis type species. However, Lane and Ebert (2015) noted that Ophiopsis originally included O. muensteri only when first erected by Agassiz (1834), so they re-assigned procera and some Ophiopsis species to the new genus Ophiopsiella.[1][2][3]

See also

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References

  1. ^ Agassiz, L. 1834. Abgerissene Bemerkungen über fossile Fische. pp. 379–390 in: von Leonhard, K. C. & Bronn, H. G. (eds.): Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde, 1834 (4). E. Schweitzbarts Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart.
  2. ^ Lane, J. A. & Ebert, M., 2012: Revision of Furo muensteri (Halecomorphi, Ophiopsidae) from the Upper Jurassic of Western Europe, with comments on the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 32 (4): 799–819. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2012.680325
  3. ^ 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
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Halecomorphi
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Chordata
  • Class: Actinopterygii
  • Subclass: Neopterygii
  • Infraclass: Holostei
Actinopterygii
    • see Actinopterygii
Neopterygii
    • see Neopterygii
Halecomorphi
    • see below↓
Halecomorphi
Halecomorphi
  • Angolaichthys?
  • Cipactlichthys
  • Peia?
  • Promecosomina?
  • Prosantichthys
Parasemionotidae
Ionoscopiformes
Ionoscopidae
Ophiopsiellidae
Caturoidea
Caturidae
Amioidea
Sinamiidae
Amiidae
Furo longiserratus

Caturus furcatus

Amia calva
Taxon identifiers
Ophiopsis


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