Amiopsis is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater and marine bony fish belonging to the family Amiidae, making it closely related to the modern bowfin.[1] Fossils are known from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone, Germany (A. lepidota), the Early Cretaceous Purbeck Group, England (A. damoni), La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, Spain (A. woodwardi) and Bernnissant Iguanodon locality, Belgium (A. dolloi) and the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of the Balkans (A. prisca type species). The monophyly of the genus is questionable, due to it being based on a single character, "the presence of three or more lateral fossae on each side of most abdominal centra". Remains previously assigned to this genus from the Early Cretaceous Las Hoyas, Spain have been moved into the new genus Hispanamia.[2]
| Amiopsis Temporal range:
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| Amiopsis lepidota | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Halecomorphi |
| Order: | Amiiformes |
| Family: | Amiidae |
| Subfamily: | †Amiopsinae Grande and Bemis, 1998 |
| Genus: | †Amiopsis Kner, 1863 |
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| Amiopsis prisca Kner, 1863
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See also edit
References edit
- ^ The Paleobiology Database Amiopsis entry
- ^ MartÍn-Abad, Hugo; Poyato-Ariza, Francisco JosÉ (2017-11-07). "A new genus and species for the amiiform fishes previously assigned to Amiopsis from the Early Cretaceous of Las Hoyas, Cuenca, Spain". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 181 (3): 604–637. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx010. ISSN 0024-4082.
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