Articles | Volume 20, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-20-47-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-20-47-2017
Research article
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31 Jan 2017
Research article |  | 31 Jan 2017

The lower actinopterygian fauna from the Lower Carboniferous Albert shale formation of New Brunswick, Canada – a review of previously described taxa and a description of a new genus and species

Kathryn E. Mickle

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A new lower actinopterygian fossil fish genus and species is described from a Paleozoic site in Canada. The new taxon, based on the study of a well-preserved fossil, is defined by a unique combination of characters including features of the scales and the bones of the snout. A review of previously described fishes from this locality highlights how redescriptions of large cosmopolitan genera, and descriptions of new taxa, are vital to our understanding of the diversity of this group as a whole.
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