| Maliamia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Halecomorphi |
| Order: | Amiiformes |
| Family: | Amiidae |
| Subfamily: | †Vidalamiinae |
| Genus: | †Maliamia Patterson and Longbottom, 1989 |
| Species: | †M. gigas
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| Binomial name | |
| †Maliamia gigas Patterson and Longbottom, 1989
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Maliamia ("Malian bowfin") is an extinct genus of amiid ray-finned fish from the Early Eocene, known from fragmentary remains found in the Tamaguélelt Formation of Mali. It was described in 1989, based on fossils recovered by three separate expeditions in 1975, 1979–80, and 1981. The type species is Maliamia gigas, named in reference to its large size.[1]
Maliamia is currently the youngest known member of Vidalamiinae, an extinct group of bowfin fish that lived from the Early Cretaceous to the Early Eocene.[2]
- ^ Patterson, C; Longbottom, A. E. (1989-12-27). "An Eocene Amiid Fish from Mali, West Africa". Copeia. 1989 (4): 827. doi:10.2307/1445965. ISSN 0045-8511. JSTOR 1445965.
- ^ Grande, G; Bemis, E (2014). "A comprehensive phylogenetic study of amiid fishes (Amiidae) based on comparative skeletal anatomy. An empirical search for interconnected patterns of natural history. (project)". MorphoBank datasets. doi:10.7934/p482. Retrieved 2022-05-07.