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Dictyopyge

Palaeonisciformes - Redfieldiidae

Taxonomy
Dictyopyge was named by Egerton (1847) [Sepkoski's age data: Tr l Sepkoski's reference number: 1066]. Its type is Catopterus macrurus. It is the type genus of Dictyopygidae.

It was assigned to Dictyopygidae by Hay (1902); to Palaeonisciformes by Sepkoski (2002); and to Redfieldiidae by Schaeffer and McDonald (1978) and Nelson (2006).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1847Dictyopyge Egerton
1902Dictyopyge Hay p. 370
1978Dictyopyge Schaeffer and McDonald p. 144
2002Dictyopype Sepkoski
2006Dictyopyge Nelson p. 91

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
RankNameAuthor
—Osteichthyes()
superclassActinopterygii()
orderPalaeonisciformesHay 1902
suborderRedfieldioidei(Berg 1955)
familyRedfieldiidaeHutchinson 1973
genusDictyopygeEgerton 1847

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.

G. †Dictyopyge Egerton 1847
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†Dictyopyge formosa Broom 1913
†Dictyopyge illustrans Woodward 1890
†Dictyopyge macrurus Redfield 1841
†Dictyopyge meekeri Schaeffer and McDonald 1978
†Dictyopyge robusta Woodward 1890
†Dictyopyge symmetrica Woodward 1890
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
B. Schaeffer and N. G. McDonald 1978Dictyopyge differs from Redfieldius and other genera in the family Redfieldiidae in having the snout region either weakly ossified or unossified but covered with minute, closely spaced, blunt, bony tubercles; frontals relatively large, length nearly twice greatest width; single ovoid suborbital; no dermohyal; dermal skull bones ornamented with flattened, somewhat imbricating tubercles or ridges; anal fin (when completely preserved) lobate rather than triangular, with broad, segmented fin rays.