Palaeoniscum
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Palaeoniscum is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish from the Middle to Late Permian period of England, Germany, Turkey, North America and Greenland, and possibly other regions. The genus was named Pal
Palaeoniscus freieslebeni 2
Restoration of Palaeoniscum
P. vratislavensis fossil
Cheirolepis
Wuchiapingian
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In the geologic timescale, the Wuchiapingian or Wujiapingian is an age or stage of the Permian. It is also the lower or earlier of two subdivisions of the Lopingian Epoch or Series. The Wuchiapingian
Palaeoniscum
…freieslebeni was named after Johann Carl Freiesleben (1774–1846), mining commissioner of Saxony. P. freieslebeni is the most common taxon in the Wuchiapingian aged Kupferschiefer and Marl Slate, where it constitutes 80% of all fish fossils. The genus is considered to be a poorly defined wastebasket taxon…
Wuchiapingian aged stratigraphic succession including the Kupferschiefer, Kamsdorf mine near Saalfeld, Thuringia, Germany