Biology:Strepsodus
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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes
| Strepsodus Temporal range: Carboniferous
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| Family: | Rhizodontidae
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| Genus: | Strepsodus Huxley, 1865
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| †Strepsodus sauroides Binney, 1841
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Strepsodus is a genus of rhizodont lobe-finned fish that lived throughout the Carboniferous period. Fossils have been found in eastern Canada , Britain (England and Scotland), and Queensland, Australia ; indeterminate species of Strepsodus have also been found in the late Devonian deposits of Turkey, Iran and Colombia.[1][2] A large individual is measured up to 3.5 metres (11.5 ft) long.[2]
References
- ↑ Johanson Z.; Turner S.; Warren A. (2000). "First East Gondwanan record of Strepsodus (Sarcopterygii, Rhizodontida) from the Lower Carboniferous Ducabrook Formation, central Queensland, Australia". Geodiversitas 22 (2): 161—169. https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/g2000n2a1.pdf.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jeffery, Jonathan E. (2006). "The Carboniferous fish genera Strepsodus and Archichthys (Sarcopterygii: Rhizodontida): Clarifying 150 years of confusion". Palaeontology 49 (1): 113—132. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2005.00531.x.
Wikidata ☰ Q7623298 entry
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