Bourbonnella Explained

Bourbonnella is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater and coastal marine ray-finned fish that lived during the late Mississippian (Carboniferous) and Asselian (Cisuralian/early Permian epoch) in what is now Burgundy (Autun, France), the Czech Republik (Boskovice Graben), and Utah (United States), with other remains known from elsewhere.^[1] The genus was named by Daniel Heyler in 1967.

It contains the following species:^[2]

• B. fourrieri Poplin, 2001 - Late Pennsylvanian (Stephanian) of France
• B. guilloti Heyler, 1967 - Early Permian (Asselian) of France
• B. hirsuta Štamberg, 2007 - Early Permian (Sakmarian) of the Czech Republic
• B. jocelynae Mickle, 2011^[3] - Early Pennsylvanian (Bashkirian) of the United States (Utah)
• B. sottyi Anonymous, 1972 - Late Pennsylvanian (Stephanian) of France

Indeterminate remains are known from the Carboniferous of the US (New Mexico) and Spain. Specimens from Germany were found in 2001 to belong to Aeduella.^[4]

The species B. jocelynae is the earliest known representative of the family Aeduellidae.

See also

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish

Further reading

• Web site: Bourbonnella . Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database . 17 December 2021.
• Web site: Genus †Bourbonnella - Hierarchy . The Taxonomicon . 3 Aug 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140811035910/http://www.taxonomy.nl/taxonomicon/TaxonTree.aspx?id=1321166 . 2014-08-11 .

Notes and References

1. Romano . Carlo . Koot . Martha B. . Kogan . Ilja . Brayard . Arnaud . Minikh . Alla V. . Brinkmann . Winand . Bucher . Hugo . Kriwet . Jürgen . Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution . Biological Reviews . 2016 . 91 . 1 . 106–147 . 10.1111/brv.12161 . 25431138 . 5332637 .
2. Web site: PBDB . 2024-04-02 . paleobiodb.org.
3. Mickle . Kathryn E. . 2011 . The early actinopterygian fauna of the Manning Canyon Shale Formation (upper Mississippian, lower Pennsylvanian) of Utah, U.S.A. . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 31 . 5 . 962–980 . 10.1080/02724634.2011.595622 . 2011JVPal..31..962M . 129224357 . 0272-4634.
4. Poplin . Cécile . 2001 . Le genre Bourbonnella (Actinopterygii, Aeduellidae) : révision et description d'une nouvelle espèce du Stéphanien (Carbonifère supérieur) de Montceau-les-Mines (Massif Central, France) . Annales de Paléontologie . 87 . 4 . 231–248 . 10.1016/s0753-3969(01)80012-4 . 0753-3969.