Benedenius
| Benedenius Temporal range: Visean, | |
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| Specimen at the Museum of Natural Sciences, Belgium | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Eurynotiformes |
| Family: | †Styracopteridae |
| Genus: | †Benedenius Traquair, 1878 |
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Bendenius is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish. It is known from the Early Carboniferous of Belgium.[1][2] It was named after Belgian paleontologist Pierre-Joseph van Beneden.
It contains two species:[1]
- B. deneensis (van Beneden, 1871)
- B. soreili Fraipont, 1890
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.[3][4][5][6]
See also
References
- ^ a b "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
