Challaia
| Challaia Temporal range:
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| Fossil of Challaia elongata[3] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Elonichthyiformes |
| Family: | †Acrolepidae |
| Genus: | †Challaia Rusconi, 1946 |
| Type species | |
| †Challaia magna Rusconi, 1949
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Challaia is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater ray-finned fish that lived during the Triassic period in what is now Argentina (Mendoza).[4] Two species are known, C. magna (type species), most likely from the Cerro de Las Cabras Formation, and C. elongata (previously assigned to Myriolepis) from the Los Rastros Formation.[5][1] Three other species, C. multidentata, C. striata and C.? cacheutensis, are considered nomina dubia.[1][3]
C. elongata is the youngest known member of the Acrolepididae, a family of early ray-finned fishes that was dominant throughout the late Paleozoic, and survived into the Triassic.[6]
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References[edit]
- ^ a b c López-Arbarello, Adriana; Rauhut, Oliver W. M.; Cerdeño, Esperanza (2010). "The Triassic fish faunas of the Cuyana Basin, Western Argentina". Palaeontology. 53 (2): 249–276. Bibcode:2010Palgy..53..249L. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00931.x. S2CID 129540287.
- ^ Romano, Carlo; Koot, Martha B.; Kogan, Ilja; Brayard, Arnaud; Minikh, Alla V.; Brinkmann, Winand; Bucher, Hugo; Kriwet, Jürgen (2016). "Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution". Biological Reviews. 91 (1): 106–147. doi:10.1111/brv.12161. PMID 25431138. S2CID 5332637.
- ^ a b López-Arbarello, Adriana; Rogers, Raymond; Puerta, Pablo (2006). "Freshwater actinopterygians of the Los Rastros Formation (Triassic), Bermejo Basin, Argentina". Fossil Record. 9 (2): 238–258. Bibcode:2006FossR...9..238L. doi:10.1002/mmng.200600011.
- ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-05-08.
- ^ López-Arbarello, A.; Rogers, R.; Puerta, P. (2006-08-01). "Freshwater actinopterygians of the Los Rastros Formation (Triassic), Bermejo Basin, Argentina". Fossil Record. 9 (2): 238–258. doi:10.1002/mmng.200600011. ISSN 2193-0066.
- ^ Cavin, Lionel (2017), "Evolutionary Histories of Freshwater Fishes", Freshwater Fishes: 250 Million Years of Evolutionary History, Elsevier, pp. 53–125, ISBN 978-1-78548-138-3, retrieved 2024-05-08
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