Bobasatrania
| Bobasatrania Temporal range: Late Permian to Triassic | |
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| Bobasatrania slab and counterslab fossils at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Infraphylum: | Gnathostomata |
| Superclass: | Osteichthyes |
| Order: | Bobasatraniiformes |
| Family: | Bobasatraniidae |
| Genus: | Bobasatrania White, 1932 |
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Bobasatrania is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that survived the Permian-Triassic extinction event.
The genus originated during the late Permian, survived the Permian-Triassic extinction event, and underwent a speciation event during the Triassic (approx 240M years BP) in the shallow coastal waters off the Pangaean supercontinent. Their fossils are therefore found throughout the world,[1] with some of the best examples coming from the Wapiti Lake region of British Columbia, Canada.[2] They have a distinctive diamond-shaped body, forked tail and long thin pectoral fins. The larger Permian species are up to a metre in length, though the Triassic species are considerably smaller. The structure of their teeth suggests they fed on small shelled animals.
References
- ↑ Nielsen, Eigil. A preliminary note on Bobasatrania groenlandica. Meddr. Dansk geol. Forening, 12 (2), 197-204.
- ↑ Past Lives: Chronicles of Canadian Paleontology
- Nielsen, Eigil. 1942. Studies on Triasslc Fishes from East Greenland. I. Glaucolepis and Boreosomus. Palaeozoologica Groenlandica. vol. I.
- Nielsen, Eigil. 1947. Studies on Triassic Fishes from East Greenland. II. Australosomus and Birgeria. Palaeozoologica Groenlandica. vol. III. 204 Medd, fra Dansk Geol. Forening. København. Bd. 12. [1952].
- Stensiö, E. A:EON, 1921. Triassic Fishes from Spitsbergen. Part I. Vienna.
- Stensiö, E. 1932. Triassic Fishes from East Greenland. Medd. om Grønland, Bd. 83, Nr. 3.
- Stensiö, E. 1947. The sensory Lines and dermal Bones of the Cheek in Fishes and Amphibians. Stockholm, Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl., ser. 3, Bd. 22, no. 1.
- Watson, D . M. S., 1928. On some Points in the Structure of Palaeonlscid and allied Fish. London, Zool. Soc. Proc, pt. 1.
- White, E . I., 1932. On a new Triassic Fish from North-East Madagascar. Ann. and Mag. of Nat, Hist. Ser. 10, vol. X.
- Bürgin, T. 1992. Basal ray-finned fishes (Osteichthyes; Actinopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Canton Tessin, Switzerland). Schweizerische Paläontologische Abhandlungen 114:1-164.