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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Genus: | †Bluefieldius Mickle, 2018 |
| Species: | †B. mercerensis
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| †Bluefieldius mercerensis Mickle, 2018
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Bluefieldius is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Mississippian (Early Carboniferous) epoch in what is now West Virginia, United States.1 It is known from a single fossil collected from the late Serpukhovian or early Viséan Bluefield Formation.2 The type and only species (monotypy) is Bluefieldius mercerensis.
It has a "palaeoniscoid" body plan, although as that order is thought to be paraphyletic, it was described as an indeterminate actinopterygian.2
References
References
- "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
- Mickle, Kathryn E. (2018). "A new lower actinopterygian fish from the Upper Mississippian Bluefield Formation of West Virginia, USA". PeerJ. 6 e5533. doi:10.7717/peerj.5533. PMC 6119456. PMID 30186696.