Meridensia
Meridensia is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived during the Anisian and Ladinian ages of the Middle Triassic epoch in what is now southern Switzerland and northern Italy. Fossils were recovered from the Besano Formation of Monte San Giorgio and Besano area at the Swiss-Italian boundary.[1][2]
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| Genus: | †Meridensia Andersson, 1916 |
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The type species is Meridensia meridensis (= Meridensia gibba). Its name refers to the Swiss town of Meride on Monte San Giorgio.
References
- Bürgin, Toni (1992). "Basal ray-finned fishes (Osteichthyes; Actinopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Canton Tessin, Switzerland). Systematic palaeontology with notes on functional morphology and palaeoecology". Schweizerische Paläontologische Abhandlungen. 114: 1–164.
- Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
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