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(Redirected from Discoserra pectinodon) Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes

Discoserra pectinodon
Temporal range: Mississippian PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil specimen in the Natural History Museum, Vienna
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Guildayichthyiformes
Family: Guildayichthyidae
Genus: Discoserra
Lund, 2000
Type species
Discoserra pectinodon
Lund, 2000

Discoserra ("serrated disc") is a prehistoric ray-finned fish from the Mississippian of the Bear Gulch Limestone in Montana. It is a member of the Guildayichthyiformes with a round body and a skull possessing primitive and modern traits. Discoserra is about 60 mm long. In 2006, Discoserra was hypothesized to be a stem neopterygian, although it has alternatively been placed in Cladistia along with other Guildayichthyiformes.

References

  1. Lund, Richard (2000). "The new Actinopterygian order Guildayichthyiformes from the Lower Carboniferous of Montana (USA)". Geodiversitas. 22 (2).
  2. Richard Lund, Eileen Grogan, Geodiversitas, 2006
  3. Fossil Museum
  4. Kathryn E. Mickle, Unraveling the systematics of palaeoniscoid fish
  5. Mikko Haaramo. "Cladistia – bichirs and relatives". Mikko's Phylogeny Archive. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
Actinopterygian genera
Gnathostomata
Actinopterygii
    • see below↓
Actinopterygii
Actinopterygii
Howqualepididae
Mimiidae
Post-Devonian taxa
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Cheirolepis trailli
Post-Devonian taxa
Post-Devonian taxa
Acrolepidae
Aeduellidae
Aesopichthyidae
Amblypteridae
Bobasatraniiformes
Bobasatraniidae
Canobiidae
Discordichthyidae
Eigiliidae
Elonichthyidae
Eurynotiformes
Amphicentridae
Styracopteridae
Eurynotoidiformes
Gonatodidae
Guildayichthyidae
Haplolepidae
Igornichthyidae
Palaeoniscidae
Platysomidae
Ptycholepidae
Pygopteridae
Rhadinichthyidae
Saurichthyiformes
Saurichthyidae
Tarrasiidae
Turseoidae
Uighuroniscidae
Cladistia
Actinopteri
Chondrostei
Neopterygii
Acrolepis gigas

Amblypterus macropterus Birgeria sp. Birgeria sp. Amphicentrum granulosum Mamulichthys ignotus Palaeoniscum freieslebeni

Taxon identifiers
Discoserra pectinodon


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