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Amia hesperia

Osteichthyes - Amiiformes - Amiidae

Taxonomy
Amia hesperia was named by Wilson (1982). Its type specimen is UAVP 14758, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ashnola chert site (above), which is in a Lutetian fluvial shale in Canada.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
A. barroisi, A. uintensis, A. barroisi
Entered
by M. Carrano on 2009-07-15; modified by P. Holroyd on 2017-11-24

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1982Amia hesperia Wilson p. 415

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
RankNameAuthor
subclassActinopterygii()
—NeopterygiiRegan 1923
infraclassHolostei(Müller 1846)
orderAmiiformesHay 1929
suborderAmioidei
familyAmiidae
genusAmia
specieshesperia

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Amia hesperia Wilson 1982
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available