Palaeonisciformes


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Palaeonisciformes

[¦pāl·ē·ō‚nis·ə′fȯr·mēz]
(paleontology)
A large extinct order of chondrostean fishes including the earliest known and most primitive ray-finned forms.
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The fossils, as a rule, were preserved as scales and loose teeth of the Palaeonisciformes and Coelacanthimorpha, dispersed and fragmented among the matrix (Fig.
The Tatui Formation (Early Permian, Parana Basin), Brazil: Paleontology and Paleoenvironmental Considerations/La Formacion Tatui (Permico Temprano, Cuenca del Parana), Brasil: Consideraciones paleontologicas y paleoambientales
When Gross (1968) established the new taxon Andreolepis hedei he found that most of the morphological, histological, and morphogenetical characteristics matched with those of Devonian Palaeonisciformes.
After Janvier, this order might precede the Palaeonisciformes in the evolution of the class.
Andreolepis (Actinopterygii) in the upper Silurian of Northern Eurasia/Andreolepis'e (Actinopterygii) Levik Euraasia Pohjaosa Ulemsiluris/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]

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