Achoania is an extinct genus of primitive bony fish which lived during the Early Devonian period. It is known from a skull discovered in the Xitun Formation of Yunnan, China.[1] While originally considered to be a lobe-finned fish, later studies suggested that it may be a stem-group Osteichthyes instead.[2]
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| Genus: | †Achoania Zhu, Yu & Ahlberg, 2001
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| †Achoania jarvikii Zhu, Yu & Ahlberg, 2001
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- ^ Zhu, Min; Yu, Xiaobo; Ahlberg, Per E. (2001). "A primitive sarcopterygian fish with an eyestalk". Nature. 410 (6824): 81–84. doi:10.1038/35065078. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 11242045. S2CID 4416579.
- ^ King, Benedict (July 2019). "Which morphological characters are influential in a Bayesian phylogenetic analysis? Examples from the earliest osteichthyans". Biology Letters. 15 (7): 20190288. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2019.0288. ISSN 1744-9561. PMC 6684994. PMID 31311486.
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