Bourbonnella

Bourbonnella Temporal range: early Pennsylvanian-Sakmarian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Bourbonnella sottyi fossil
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	†Aeduelliformes
Family:	†Aeduellidae
Genus:	†Bourbonnella Heyler, 1967
Type species
†Bourbonnella guilloti Heyler 1967
Species
See text

Bourbonnella is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater and coastal marine ray-finned fish that lived during the late Mississippian (Carboniferous) and Asselian (Cisuralian/early Permian epoch) in what is now Burgundy (Autun, France), the Czech Republik (Boskovice Graben), and Utah (United States), with other remains known from elsewhere.^[1][2] The genus was named by Daniel Heyler in 1967.

It contains the following species:^[3]

• †B. fourrieri Poplin, 2001 - Late Pennsylvanian (Stephanian) of France
• †B. guilloti Heyler, 1967 - Early Permian (Asselian) of France
• †B. hirsuta Štamberg, 2007 - Early Permian (Sakmarian) of the Czech Republic
• †B. jocelynae Mickle, 2011^[1] - Early Pennsylvanian (Bashkirian) of the United States (Utah)
• †B. sottyi Anonymous, 1972 - Late Pennsylvanian (Stephanian) of France

Indeterminate remains are known from the Carboniferous of the US (New Mexico) and Spain.^[3] Specimens from Germany were found in 2001 to belong to Aeduella.^[4]

The species B. jocelynae is the earliest known representative of the family Aeduellidae.^[1]

See also

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish

References

1. Mickle, Kathryn E. (2011). "The early actinopterygian fauna of the Manning Canyon Shale Formation (upper Mississippian, lower Pennsylvanian) of Utah, U.S.A." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (5): 962–980. Bibcode:2011JVPal..31..962M. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.595622. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 129224357.
2. Romano, Carlo; Koot, Martha B.; Kogan, Ilja; Brayard, Arnaud; Minikh, Alla V.; Brinkmann, Winand; Bucher, Hugo; Kriwet, Jürgen (2016). "Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution". Biological Reviews. 91 (1): 106–147. doi:10.1111/brv.12161. PMID 25431138. S2CID 5332637.
3. "PBDB". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
4. Poplin, Cécile (2001). "Le genre Bourbonnella (Actinopterygii, Aeduellidae) : révision et description d'une nouvelle espèce du Stéphanien (Carbonifère supérieur) de Montceau-les-Mines (Massif Central, France)". Annales de Paléontologie. 87 (4): 231–248. doi:10.1016/s0753-3969(01)80012-4. ISSN 0753-3969.

Further reading

• "Bourbonnella". Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
• "Genus †Bourbonnella - Hierarchy". The Taxonomicon. Archived from the original on 2014-08-11. Retrieved 3 Aug 2014.