Amia — Taxon — Stratum Strata

Amia — Amia — Amia — Oilshale, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY SA 4.0

Phylum	Chordata
Class	Actinopterygii
Order	Amiiformes
Family	Amiidae
Group	Fish
Rank (PBDB)	genus· Paleobiology Database
Author	Linnaeus 1766· Paleobiology Database
Common name (PBDB)	bowfin· Paleobiology Database
Classification (PBDB)	Chordata › Osteichthyes › Amiiformes › Amiidae· Paleobiology Database
Range (PBDB)	137–0 Ma· Paleobiology Database
PBDB occurrences	140· Paleobiology Database

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Amia — Amia calva Linnaeus, 1766 (NHMUK 2021.8.31.2) — Amia calva Linnaeus, 1766 (NHMUK 2021.8.31.2) — © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum (London) Data Portal, CC BY 4.0

Amia — Amia Linnaeus, 1766 (NHMUK PV P 1532 a) — Amia Linnaeus, 1766 (NHMUK PV P 1532 a) — © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum (London) Data Portal, CC BY 4.0

Amia — Amia Linnaeus, 1766 (NHMUK PV P 62144) — Amia Linnaeus, 1766 (NHMUK PV P 62144) — © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum (London) Data Portal, CC BY 4.0

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Cite this article

Stratum Strata. "Amia" (Taxon). Stratum Strata pack 2026.09, as of 2026-09-21. https://stratum.black/strata/taxa/amia. Accessed 2026-09-21.

BibTeX · CSL-JSON

@misc{stratum-amia,
  title        = {Amia},
  author       = {{Stratum Strata}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://stratum.black/strata/taxa/amia}},
  year         = {2026},
  note         = {Taxon article, Stratum Strata pack 2026.09, as of 2026-09-21; sources: stratum, pbdb, commons, wikidata, nhm. Accessed 2026-09-21.}
}

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