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Birgeria groenlandica

Palaeonisciformes - Birgeriidae

Taxonomy
Birgeria gronlandica was named by Stensiö (1932). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cape Stosch on Hold-with-Hope, which is in a Griesbachian marine siliciclastic in Greenland.

It was corrected as Birgeria groenlandica by Nielsen (1949) and Romano et al. (2017).

Sister species
B. acuminata (syn. Saurichthys longiconus, Saurichthys listroconus), B. aldingeri, B. americana, B. costata, B. gronlandica, B. guizhouensis, B. liui, B. mougeoti, B. nielseni, B. stensioei, B. velox

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1932Birgeria gronlandica Stensiö pp. 109-116 figs. 40, 41
1949Birgeria groenlandica Nielsen
2017Birgeria groenlandica Romano et al. pp. 1029, 1038

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
RankNameAuthor
—Osteichthyes()
superclassActinopterygii()
orderPalaeonisciformesHay 1902
suborderPalaeoniscoidei
familyBirgeriidaeBerg 1940
genusBirgeriaStensiö 1919
speciesgroenlandica()

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available