Benedenius

Benedenius
Temporal range: Visean, 345–339 Ma
Specimen at the Museum of Natural Sciences, Belgium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: †Eurynotiformes
Family: †Styracopteridae
Genus: †Benedenius
Traquair, 1878
Species
  • †B. deneensis (van Beneden, 1871)
  • †B. soreili Fraipont, 1890

Benedenius is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish. It is known from the Early Carboniferous of Belgium. It was named after Belgian paleontologist Pierre-Joseph van Beneden.

It contains two species:

Formerly classified as a "paleonisciform", more recent studies suggest that it belongs to an early order of deep-bodied actinopterygians known as the Eurynotiformes. It is generally classified within the Styracopteridae, though at least one recent study treats it as a member of the Amphicentridae.

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References

  1. 1 2 "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  2. ↑ Mottequin, Bernard; Poty, Edouard; Prestianni, Cyrille (2015-01-01). "Catalogue of the types and illustrated specimens recovered from the 'black marble' of Denée, a marine conservation-Lagerstätte from the Mississippian of southern Belgium". Geologica Belgica. ISSN 1374-8505.
  3. ↑ Sallan, Lauren Cole; Coates, Michael I. (2013). "Styracopterid (Actinopterygii) ontogeny and the multiple origins of post-Hangenberg deep-bodied fishes: Early CArboniferous Styracopterid Fishes". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 169 (1): 156–199. doi:10.1111/zoj.12054. hdl:2027.42/99621.
  4. ↑ Caron, Abigail; Venkataraman, Vishruth; Tietjen, Kristen; Coates, Michael (2023-05-29). "A fish for Phoebe: a new actinopterygian from the Upper Carboniferous Coal Measures of Saddleworth, Greater Manchester, UK, and a revision of Kansasiella eatoni". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 198 (4): 957–981. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad011. ISSN 0024-4082.
  5. ↑ Friedman, Matt; Pierce, Stephanie E.; Coates, Michael; Giles, Sam (2018). "Feeding structures in the ray-finned fish Eurynotus crenatus (Actinopterygii: Eurynotiformes): implications for trophic diversification among Carboniferous actinopterygians". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 109 (1–2): 33–47. doi:10.1017/S1755691018000816. ISSN 1755-6910.
  6. ↑ Wilson, Conrad D.; Mansky, Chris F.; Anderson, Jason S. (2021-04-16). "A platysomid occurrence from the Tournaisian of Nova Scotia". Scientific Reports. 11 (1): 8375. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-87027-y. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 8052371.