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Amiopsis Temporal range: Tithonian–Cenomanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Amiopsis lepidota
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Clade:	Halecomorphi
Order:	Amiiformes
Family:	Amiidae
Subfamily:	†Amiopsinae Grande and Bemis, 1998
Genus:	†Amiopsis Kner, 1863
Type species
Amiopsis prisca Kner, 1863
Synonyms
Urocles

Amiopsis is an extinct genus of freshwater and marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Amiidae, making it closely related to the modern bowfin. Fossils are known from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone, Germany (A. lepidota), the Early Cretaceous Purbeck Group, England (A. damoni), La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, Spain (A. woodwardi) and Bernnissant Iguanodon locality, Belgium (A. dolloi) and the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of the Balkans (A. prisca type species). The monophyly of the genus is questionable, due to it being based on a single character, "the presence of three or more lateral fossae on each side of most abdominal centra". Remains previously assigned to this genus from the Early Cretaceous Las Hoyas, Spain have been moved into the new genus Hispanamia.

References

1. The Paleobiology Database Amiopsis entry
2. MartÍn-Abad, Hugo; Poyato-Ariza, Francisco JosÉ (2017-11-07). "A new genus and species for the amiiform fishes previously assigned to Amiopsis from the Early Cretaceous of Las Hoyas, Cuenca, Spain". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 181 (3): 604–637. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx010. ISSN 0024-4082.

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Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Subclass: Neopterygii Infraclass: Holostei Actinopterygii see Actinopterygii Neopterygii see Neopterygii Halecomorphi see below↓ Halecomorphi
Halecomorphi †Angolaichthys? †Cipactlichthys †Peia? †Promecosomina? †Prosantichthys †Parasemionotidae Albertonia Broughia Candelarialepis Devillersia Icarealcyon Jacobulus Jurongia Lehmanotus Lombardina? Ospia Parasemionotus Piveteaunotus Qingshania Stensionotus Suius Thomasinotus Watsonulus †Ionoscopiformes Ainia Allolepidotus? Altmuehlfuro Archaeosemionotus Asialepidotus? Brachyichthys Cerinichthys Elongofuro Eoeugnathus? Furo Gymnoichthys? Heterolepidotus Holzmadenfuro Italophiopsis Ohmdenfuro Oligopleurus? Ophiopsis Panxianichthys? Robustichthys? Sanctusichthys Schernfeldfuro Sinoeugnathus? Subortichthys Xingyia? Zandtfuro Ionoscopidae Ionoscopus Oshunia Quetzalichthys Spathiurus Ophiopsiellidae Congophiopsis Macrepistius Ophiopsiella Petalopteryx Placidichthys Teoichthys Amiiformes †Caturoidea Eurypoma Liodesmus Strobilodus Caturidae Amblysemius Caturus Catutoichthys Amioidea †Tomognathus †Sinamiidae Ikechaoamia Siamamia Sinamia Amiidae Amia †Amiopsis †Calamopleurus †Cratoamia †Cyclurus †Hispanamia †Maliamia †Melvius †Nipponamia †Pachyamia †Pseudamiatus †Solnhofenamia †Vidalamia

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• Amioidea
• Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
• Late Jurassic bony fish
• Cretaceous bony fish
• Late Jurassic fish of Europe
• Cretaceous fish of Europe
• Fossils of Belgium
• Fossils of Spain
• Fossils of England
• Fossils of Slovenia
• Solnhofen fauna
• Tithonian genus first appearances
• Cenomanian genus extinctions
• Fossil taxa described in 1863
• Ray-finned fish stubs
• Jurassic fish stubs