Biology:Paraceratodus

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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes


Paraceratodus
Temporal range: Late Permian - Early Triassic (but see text)
Paraceratodus.JPG
Paraceratodus sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Class:
Order:
Dipnoi
Suborder:
Genus:
Paraceratodus

Lehman et al., 1959
Species:
P. germaini
Binomial name
Paraceratodus germaini
Lehman et al., 1959

Paraceratodus is an extinct genus of prehistoric lungfish.[1] Only one species, P. germaini, is known from the latest Permian or earliest Triassic period of Madagascar .[2] Phylogenetic evidence supports it being the most basal member of the suborder Ceratodontoidei, which contains modern lungfish, and as with the rest of the order it likely diverged during the late Carboniferous.[3]

See also

  • Sarcopterygii
  • List of sarcopterygians
  • List of prehistoric bony fish

References

  1. "Fossilworks: Paraceratodus". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=194435. 
  2. Kemp, A. (1994). "Australian Triassic Lungfish Skulls". Journal of Paleontology 68 (3): 647–654. doi:10.1017/S0022336000025968. ISSN 0022-3360. Bibcode1994JPal...68..647K. 
  3. Kemp, Anne; Cavin, Lionel; Guinot, Guillaume (2017-04-01). "Evolutionary history of lungfishes with a new phylogeny of post-Devonian genera" (in en). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 471: 209–219. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.12.051. ISSN 0031-0182. Bibcode2017PPP...471..209K. 

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