Achoania

{{Short description|Extinct genus of bony fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Lochkovian|Lochkovian|Early Devonian (Lochkovian)}} | taxon = Achoania | authority = <small>Zhu, Yu & Ahlberg, 2001</small> | type_species = {{extinct}}''Achoania jarvikii'' | type_species_authority = <small>Zhu, Yu & Ahlberg, 2001</small> }}

'''''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.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Zhu |first1=Min |last2=Yu |first2=Xiaobo |last3=Ahlberg |first3=Per E. |date=2001 |title=A primitive sarcopterygian fish with an eyestalk |url=https://www.academia.edu/407875 |journal=Nature |volume=410 |issue=6824 |pages=81–84 |doi=10.1038/35065078 |pmid=11242045 |s2cid=4416579 |issn=0028-0836}}</ref> While originally considered to be a lobe-finned fish, later studies suggested that it may be a stem-group Osteichthyes instead.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=King |first=Benedict |date=July 2019 |title=Which morphological characters are influential in a Bayesian phylogenetic analysis? Examples from the earliest osteichthyans |journal=Biology Letters |language=en |volume=15 |issue=7 |article-number=20190288 |doi=10.1098/rsbl.2019.0288 |issn=1744-9561 |pmc=6684994 |pmid=31311486}}</ref>

==See also== {{portal|Paleontology}} * ''Psarolepis''

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Category:Monotypic prehistoric lobe-finned fish genera Category:Early Devonian fish Category:Prehistoric animals of China