Biology:Oligolactoria
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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes
Oligolactoria | |
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Artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
Family: | Ostraciidae |
Genus: | †Oligolactoria Tyler & Gregorova, 1991 |
Species: | †O. bubiki
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Binomial name | |
†Oligolactoria bubiki Tyler & Gregorova, 1991
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Oligolactoria bubiki is an extinct prehistoric boxfish that lived during the Rupelian epoch from the Middle Oligocene of Moravia, Czech Republic.[1]
In life, it would have strongly resembled a modern cowfish (genus Lactoria).
See also
- Eolactoria
- Prehistoric fish
- List of prehistoric bony fish
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: 560. http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
Wikidata ☰ Q663859 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligolactoria.
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