Beishanichthys

Beishanichthys is an extinct genus of freshwater ray-finned fish which existed in Gansu Province, China during the Olenekian age of the early Triassic period. It contains a single species, B. brevicaudalis, first named by Guang-Hui Xu, Ke-Qin Gao in 2011 based on fossils from the Lower Triassic lake deposits exposed in northern Gansu, China.^[1][2] It is considered a scanilepiform, a group of early cladistians related to the modern bichirs, although Beishanichthys was not incorporated into the analyses that found this phylogenetic placement among the cladistians.^[3]

Beishanichthys Temporal range: Early Triassic, 251–247 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	†Scanilepiformes
Genus:	†Beishanichthys Xu & Gao, 2011
Species:	†B. brevicaudalis
Binomial name
†Beishanichthys brevicaudalis Xu & Gao, 2011