Biology:Plectocretacicus
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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Family: | Plectocretacicidae Tyler & Sorbini, 1996[2]
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| Genus: | Plectocretacicus Sorbini, 1979
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| Species: | P. clarae
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| Plectocretacicus clarae Sorbini, 1979
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Plectocretacicus is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived during the lower Cenomanian.[1] It contains a single species, P. clarae. Plectocretacicus is the earliest known member of the order Tetraodontiformes.
See also
- 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.
- ↑ Tyler, James C.; Sorbini, Lorenzo (1996). "New Superfamily and Three New Families of Tetraodontiform Fishes from the Upper Cretaceous: The Earliest and Most Morphologically Primitive Plectognaths". Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 82 (82): 1–59. doi:10.5479/si.00810266.82.1. https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/1998/-0082-Lo_res.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y.
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