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Bluefieldius

Bluefieldius
Temporal range: Late Mississippian
Holotype specimen
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Genus: Bluefieldius
Mickle, 2018
Species:
B. mercerensis
Binomial name
Bluefieldius mercerensis
Mickle, 2018

Bluefieldius is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Mississippian (Early Carboniferous) epoch in what is now West Virginia, United States.[1] It is known from a single fossil collected from the late Serpukhovian or early Viséan Bluefield Formation.[2] The type and only species (monotypy) is Bluefieldius mercerensis.

It has a "palaeoniscoid" body plan, although as that order is thought to be paraphyletic, it was described as an indeterminate actinopterygian.[2]

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