Pteronisculus

For the Jurassic ray-finned fish, see Pteroniscus.

Pteronisculus
Temporal range: Induan–Anisian[1]
Pteronisculus fossil at the Geological Museum, Copenhagen
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: †Turseoidae (?)
Genus: †Pteronisculus
White, 1933
Type species
†Pteronisculus cicatrosus
White, 1933
Other species
  • †P.? laetus (Lambe, 1916)
  • †P. gyrolepidoides (Stensiö, 1921)
  • †P. arcticus (Stensiö, 1932)
  • †P. macropterus White, 1933
  • †P. stensioi (Nielsen, 1942)
  • †P. gunnari (Nielsen, 1942)
  • †P. magnus (Nielsen, 1942)
  • †P. aldingeri (Nielsen, 1942)
  • †P. arambourgi Lehman, 1952
  • †P. broughi Lehman, 1952
  • †P. nielseni Xu et al., 2014
  • †P. nevadanus Romano et al., 2019
  • †P. changae Ren & Xu, 2021
Synonyms

†Glaucolepis Stensiö, 1921[2] (non Glaucolepis Braun, 1917)

Pteronisculus is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived during the Early Triassic and Middle Triassic epochs of the Triassic period worldwide.[3]

It was first described under the name "Glaucolepis" by Erik Stensiö in 1921 and was later shown to be a synonym of Pteronisculus described by Errol White in 1933. However, because the name "Glaucolepis" is preoccupied (it had already been given to the extant lepidopteran insect Glaucolepis Braun, 1917), Pteronisculus became the valid genus name for the Triassic fish.[2]

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  2. ^ a b White, Errol I.; Moy-Thomas, James A. (1940). "VII.—Notes on the nomenclature of fossil fishes. Part II. Homonyms D–L". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 11. 6 (31): 98–103. doi:10.1080/03745481.1940.9723659.
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