Brachypareion

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Brachypareion
Temporal range: Pennsylvanian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Palaeonisciformes (?)
Genus: Brachypareion
Kazantseva-Selezneva 1980
Species:
B. insperatum
Binomial name
Brachypareion insperatum
Kazantseva-Selezneva, 1980

Brachypareion is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Pennsylvanian epoch.[1] It contains a single species, B. insperatum, known from the Saur Mountains of Kazakhstan.[2] It is placed in the paraphyletic group Palaeonisciformes.[3]

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  1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
  2. ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
  3. ^ "IRMNG - Brachypareion Kazantseva-Selezneva, 1980†". irmng.org. Retrieved 2024-04-02.