Burtinia

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|47.8|41.2|Middle [[Eocene]]<ref name="sepkoskidb">{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |accessdate=2009-02-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220223520/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2009-02-20 }}</ref>}} | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Burtinia bruxelliensis | parent_authority = van Beneden, 1873 | authority = [[Pierre Joseph van Beneden|van Beneden]], 1873 }}

'''''Burtinia''''' is an extinct genus of prehistoric [[seabream]] that lived during the middle [[Eocene]]. It contains a single species, '''''B. bruxelliensis''''' from the [[Lede Formation]] of [[Belgium]].<ref name="sepkoskidb">{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |accessdate=2009-02-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220223520/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2009-02-20 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=PBDB Taxon |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35970 |access-date=2024-04-03 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Leriche |first=Maurice |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cdkqAAAAYAAJ |title=Les poissons éocènes de la Belgique |date=1905 |location=Belgium |language=French}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dobbels |first=Leon |date=1994 |title=Soortenlijst van fossiele vissen uit het Eoceen van België |url=https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/566640/AFZ1994015004010.pdf |journal=Afzettingen WTKG |volume=15 |issue=4}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Burtinia bruxelliensis Van Beneden, 1873 — RBINS Virtual Collections |url=https://virtualcollections.naturalsciences.be/virtual-collections/paleontology/Fossil%20Vertebrates/Fossil%20Fishes/copy9_of_ophidia/burtinia-bruxelliensis-van-beneden-1873 |access-date=2024-04-03 |website=virtualcollections.naturalsciences.be |language=en}}</ref>

==See also== {{Portal|Paleontology|Fish}} * [[Prehistoric fish]] * [[List of prehistoric bony fish]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{Taxonbar|from=Q5000750}} [[Category:Sparidae|†]] [[Category:Monotypic prehistoric ray-finned fish genera]] [[Category:Lutetian genera]] [[Category:Eocene fish of Europe]] [[Category:Fossils of Belgium]] [[Category:Taxa named by Pierre-Joseph van Beneden]] [[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1873]]