Benedenius

Benedenius Temporal range: Visean, 345–339 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Specimen at the Museum of Natural Sciences, Belgium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	†Eurynotiformes
Family:	†Styracopteridae
Genus:	†Benedenius Traquair, 1878
Species
†B. deneensis (van Beneden, 1871) †B. soreili Fraipont, 1890

Bendenius is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish. It is known from the Early Carboniferous of Belgium.^[1][2] It was named after Belgian paleontologist Pierre-Joseph van Beneden.

It contains two species:^[1]

• B. deneensis (van Beneden, 1871)
• B. soreili Fraipont, 1890

Formerly classified as a "paleonisciform", more recent studies suggest that it belongs to an early order of deep-bodied actinopterygians known as the Eurynotiformes. It is generally classified within the Styracopteridae, though at least one recent study treats it as a member of the Amphicentridae.^[3][4][5][6]

See also

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish

References

1. "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
2. Mottequin, Bernard; Poty, Edouard; Prestianni, Cyrille (2015-01-01). "Catalogue of the types and illustrated specimens recovered from the 'black marble' of Denée, a marine conservation-Lagerstätte from the Mississippian of southern Belgium". Geologica Belgica. ISSN 1374-8505.
3. Sallan, Lauren Cole; Coates, Michael I. (2013). "Styracopterid (Actinopterygii) ontogeny and the multiple origins of post-Hangenberg deep-bodied fishes: Early CArboniferous Styracopterid Fishes". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 169 (1): 156–199. doi:10.1111/zoj.12054.
4. Caron, Abigail; Venkataraman, Vishruth; Tietjen, Kristen; Coates, Michael (2023-05-29). "A fish for Phoebe: a new actinopterygian from the Upper Carboniferous Coal Measures of Saddleworth, Greater Manchester, UK, and a revision of Kansasiella eatoni". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 198 (4): 957–981. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad011. ISSN 0024-4082.
5. Friedman, Matt; Pierce, Stephanie E.; Coates, Michael; Giles, Sam (2018). "Feeding structures in the ray-finned fish Eurynotus crenatus (Actinopterygii: Eurynotiformes): implications for trophic diversification among Carboniferous actinopterygians". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 109 (1–2): 33–47. doi:10.1017/S1755691018000816. ISSN 1755-6910.
6. Wilson, Conrad D.; Mansky, Chris F.; Anderson, Jason S. (2021-04-16). "A platysomid occurrence from the Tournaisian of Nova Scotia". Scientific Reports. 11 (1): 8375. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-87027-y. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 8052371.