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.^[3][4] It contains a single species, E. ritchiei, known from the Changhsingian-aged Rangal Coal Measures of what is now Blackwater, Queensland, Australia.^[3][4][1][2]

Ebenaqua ritchiei fossil

Ebenaqua Temporal range: Changhsingian[1][2] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Artist's restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	†Bobasatraniiformes
Family:	†Bobasatraniidae
Genus:	†Ebenaqua Campbell & Phuoc, 1983
Species:	†E. ritchei
Binomial name
†Ebenaqua ritchei Campbell & Phuoc, 1983

See also

• Paleontology portal
• Fish portal

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish