''Amiopsis'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric

bony fish Osteichthyes (), popularly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse superclass of fish that have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue. They can be contrasted with the Chondrichthyes, which have skeletons primarily composed of cartilag ...

belonging to the family

Amiidae The Amiidae are a family of basal ray-finned fishes. The bowfin is the only species to survive today, although additional species in all four subfamilies of Amiidae are known from Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Eocene fossils. Bowfins are now found ...

.The Paleobiology Database ''Amiopsis'' entry
/ref> Fossils are known from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone, Germany (''A. lepidota),'' the Early Cretaceous

Purbeck Group The Purbeck Group is an Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) in south-east England. The name is derived from the district known as the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset where the strata are exposed in ...

, 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 In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic grou ...

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.''

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Prehistoric bony fish genera Jurassic bony fish Fossils of Belgium Fossils of Spain {{Jurassic-fish-stub

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