Pipiscus

Pipiscus zangerli
Temporal range: Mazon Creek
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Superclass: Agnatha
Genus: Pipiscus
Species: P. zangerli
Binomial name
Pipiscus zangerli

Pipiscus is a lamprey-like fossil from the Mazon Creek of the late Carboniferous of Illinois.[1] It has a distinctive crown-like mouth comprising a ring of radially arranged teeth.[2]

References

  1. Bardack, David.; Richardson, Eugene Stanley (1977). "New agnathous fishes from the Pennsylvanian of Illinois / David Bardack -- and Eugene S. Richardson, Jr. --". doi:10.5962/bhl.title.5167.
  2. Shu, D.; Morris, S. Conway; Zhang, X-L.; Chen, L.; Li, Y.; Han, J. (1999). "A pipiscid-like fossil from the Lower Cambrian of south China". Nature. 400 (6746): 746. doi:10.1038/23445.
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