Ainia is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived during the Kimmeridgian stage of the Late Jurassic epoch. It contains a single species, A. armata, known from the famous Solnhofen Limestone of Germany.[1][3] It is a distant relative of the bowfin, although it is more closely related to genera such as Caturus and Osteorachis.[4][5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Halecomorphi |
| Order: | †Ionoscopiformes |
| Genus: | †Ainia Jordan, 1919 |
| Species: | †A. armata
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| †Ainia armata (Wagner, 1846 [originally Lepidotus])
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See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ Rauhut, O. W. M.; López-Arbarello, A.; Röper, M.; Rothgaenger, M. (2017). "Vertebrate fossils from the Kimmeridgian of Brunn: the oldest fauna from the Solnhofen Archipelago (Late Jurassic, Bavaria, Germany)" (PDF). Zitteliana. 89: 305–329.
- ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ^ López-Arbarello, Adriana; Sferco, Emilia (2018). "Neopterygian phylogeny: the merger assay". Royal Society Open Science. 5 (3): 172337. Bibcode:2018RSOS....572337L. doi:10.1098/rsos.172337. ISSN 2054-5703. PMC 5882744. PMID 29657820.
- ^ Ebert, Martin (2018-01-02). "Cerinichthys koelblae , gen. et sp. nov., from the Upper Jurassic of Cerin, France, and its phylogenetic setting, leading to a reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of Halecomorphi (Actinopterygii)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 38 (1): e1420071. Bibcode:2018JVPal..38E0071E. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1420071. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 89886438.
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