Guiyu oneiros
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Guiyu oneiros | |
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Skeletal reconstruction | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Superclass: | Osteichthyes |
Genus: | †Guiyu Zhu et al., 2009 |
Species: | †G. oneiros |
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†Guiyu oneiros Zhu et al., 2009 | |
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Guiyu oneiros is one of the earliest articulated bony fish discovered. Fossils of Guiyu have been found in what is now Qujing, Yunnan, China, in late Silurian marine strata,[2] about 425 million years old.[1]
Guiyu is part of the Xiaoxiang fauna which is rich in fossils representing a marine ecosystem. Found in the late Ludlow-aged Kuanti Formation, the remains were dated using conodonts as index fossils. The Xiaoxiang fauna also includes galeaspids, placoderms and acanthodians.[3]