Meisenheimichthys Poschmann and Schindler 2004 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes

Full reference: M. Poschmann and T. Schindler. 2004. Sitters and Grügelborn, two important Fossil-Lagerstaetten in the Rotliegend (?Late Carboniferous - Early Permian) of the Saar-Nahe Basin (SW-Germany), with the description of a new palaeoniscoid (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 232:283-314

Parent taxon: Actinopterygii according to M. Poschmann and T. Schindler 2004

Sister taxa: Actinopteri, Aeduelliformes, Aesopichthyidae, Aetheospondyli, Aetheretmon, Aethocephalichthys, Akanolepis, Ameghinichthys, Anapterus, Aneurolepis, Asarotiformes, Atkinsonella, Australichthys, Avamia, Avonichthys, Baoqingichthys, Beagiascus, Bishofia, Bluefieldius, Bobastraniiformes, Burguklia, Cenechoia paramillensis, Cenechoia sulcata, Charleuxiidae, Chichiidae, Chirothrix, Cladistia, Cuneognathus, Diplospondichthys, Discordichthyidae, Echidnocephalus, Engraulis, Eurekichthyoidei, Eurynotiformes, Eurynotus uspallatensis, Eurypoma, Exocoetoides, Fubarichthyiformes, Guaymayenia, Guildayichthyiformes, Guntherichthys, Gyrolepidoides cuyanus, Gyrolepidotidae, Histiothrissa, Holuropsis, Isospondyli, Kalops, Kansasiella, Kenderlichthyidae, Kutaichthys, Lepidotus pectoralis, Lepidotus trotti, Lineagruan, Mallotus, Meemannia, Ministrella, Moythomasiidae, Neochallaia leonensis, Neuburgichthys, Nozamichthys, Ophiopsis lariensis, Opistopteryx, Oxypteriscus, Pachylebias, Palaeobergia, Palaeoneiros, Palaeonisci, Palaeonisciformes, Palaeoniscimorpha, Palaeoniscoidae, Palaeoniscoidea, Paleonisciformes, Paramblypteriformes, Phanerosteonoidei, Phoebeannaia, Pholidophorus dentatus, Pholidophorus lepturus, Pholidophorus vallejensis, Piratata, Polypteri, Protaulopsis, Protospondyli, Pseudoberyx, Rhynchorhinus, Roslerichthys, Salmo, Schizospondylus, Semionotus brevis, Semionotus dubius, Semionotus inornatus, Semionotus mendozaensis, Semionotus unicristatus, Semionotus vallejensis, Spinofacia, Stegotrachelus, Tanyrhinichthys, Tarrasiiformes, Terenolepis, Tetragonopterus, Thryptodus, Trachichthyiformes, Uranichthys, Yaomoshania

Subtaxa: Meisenheimichthys breitenheimensis Meisenheimichthys glanensis Meisenheimichthys palatinus

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Type: Meisenheimichthys breitenheimensis

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Permian of Germany (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections including 3 occurrences

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