Biology:Drydenius

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Drydenius is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish known from the early-mid Carboniferous of the United Kingdom.[1] It is one of a number of early fish genera long placed in the likely paraphyletic order Palaeonisciformes.[2]

It contains the following species:[1]

  • D. insignis Traquair, 1890 - Serpukhovian of Scotland (Limestone Coal Formation)
  • D. molyneuxi (Traquair, 1888) (type species) - Late Bashkirian (Westphalian) of England and Wales (Pennine Coal Measures) (=Gonatodus molyneuxi Traquair, 1888)

References

Template:Actinopterygian genera Wikidata ☰ Q5309681 entry