A new species of Burguklia (Pisces, Actinopterygii) from the Middle Permian of the Volga Region (European Russia)

Abstract

© 2019, Paläontologische Gesellschaft. A new species of early actinopterygians, Burguklia minichorum sp. nov., is described based on the occurrence of numerous isolated scales from freshwater deposits of the Urzhumian and Severodvinian regional stages (Wordian–Capitanian) of the East European Platform. The type and only hitherto known species of the genus, Burguklia gdali Kazantseva-Selezneva, 1980, comes from the Early Permian of Siberia. The new discovery indicates the existence of non-marine palaeogeographic pathways between Siberia and European Russia during the Permian.