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Xingyia gracilis

Ionoscopiformes - Furidae

Taxonomy
Xingyia gracilis was named by Liu (2003). Its type specimen is Guizhou Dingxiao Economic Development Zone 1, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Dingxiao, Xingyi, which is in a Longobardian marine limestone in the Falang Formation of China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2003Xingyia gracilis Liu p. 349 figs. Pl 7, fig 1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
RankNameAuthor
—Actinopterygii()
—HalecostomiRegan 1903
—Halecomorphi(Cope 1872)
orderIonoscopiformesGrande and Bemis 1998
familyFuridaeJordan 1923
genusXingyia
speciesgracilis

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.

†Xingyia gracilis Liu 2003
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubp
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2009-07-20 21:50:54
Modified: 2009-07-20 23:50:54
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: Longobardian or 242.00000 to 235.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Longobardian242.0 - 235.0China (Guizhou) Xingyia gracilis (type locality: 146380)