Ainia (fish)

Ainia is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived during the Kimmeridgian stage of the Late Jurassic epoch. It contains a single species, A. armata, known from the famous Solnhofen Limestone of Germany.^[1][3] It is a distant relative of the bowfin, although it is more closely related to genera such as Caturus and Osteorachis.^[4][5]

Ainia Temporal range: Late Kimmeridgian [1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Fossil specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Clade:	Halecomorphi
Order:	†Ionoscopiformes
Genus:	†Ainia Jordan, 1919
Species:	†A. armata
Binomial name
†Ainia armata (Wagner, 1846 [originally Lepidotus])
Synonyms
Callopterus Thiollière, 1858 (nomen nudum)[2]

See also

• Paleontology portal
• Fish portal

• List of prehistoric bony fish genera