Ainia Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Clade: | Halecomorphi |
Order: | †Ionoscopiformes |
Genus: | †Ainia Jordan, 1919 |
Species: | †A. armata
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Binomial name | |
†Ainia armata (Wagner, 1846 [originally Lepidotus])
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Ainia is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived during the Kimmeridgian stage of the Late Jurassic epoch. It contains a single species, A. armata, known from the famous Solnhofen Limestone of Germany.[1][3] It is a distant relative of the bowfin, although it is more closely related to genera such as Caturus and Osteorachis.[4][5]