Category
page 1Late Permian fish
Ebenaqua
Ebenaqua (from Latin ebenus ("black") + aqua ("water"), referencing the type locality) is an extinct genus of freshwater bobasatraniiform ray-finned fish that lived during the Lopingian (late Permian) epoch of Australia. It contains a single species, E. ritchiei, known from the Changhsingian-aged Rangal Coal Measures of what is now Blackwater, Queensland, Australia.
thumb|left|Ebenaqua ritchiei fossil
Archaeolepidotus
Archaeolepidotus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine holostean bony fish that lived during the latest Permian or earliest Triassic in what is now Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. It contains a single species, A. leonardii. It is among the earliest known fossil neopterygians, and is usually recovered as a semionotiform, but others recover it as a parasemionotiform.