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Pietschellus

Wikipedia Abstract

Pietschellus is an extinct genus of enigmatic bony fish which existed in northern Italy during the early Eocene epoch (Ypresian age). It is known from a single well-preserved nearly complete specimen recovered from the Monte Postale site of the Monte Bolca locality. It was first named by Alexandre F. Bannikov and Giorgio Carnevale in 2011 and the type species is Pietschellus aenigmaticus.
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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0