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| Genus: | †Bluefieldius Mickle, 2018 |
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Bluefieldius is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Late Mississippian (Early Carboniferous) epoch in what is now West Virginia, United States. It is known form a single fossil collected from the Bluefield Formation.[1] The type and only species (monotypy) is Bluefieldius mercerensis.
See also
References
- ↑ Mickle, Kathryn E. (2018). "A new lower actinopterygian fish from the Upper Mississippian Bluefield Formation of West Virginia, USA". PeerJ. 6: e5533. doi:10.7717/peerj.5533. PMC 6119456. PMID 30186696.
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