Biology:Nematoptychius

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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes


Nematoptychius
Temporal range: Visean–Bashkirian[1]
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fossil of Nematoptychius greenocki
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Nematoptychius

Traquair, 1875
Binomial name
Nematoptychius greenocki
(Traquair, 1866)
Type species
Pygopterus greenocki
Traquair, 1866
Other species[1]
  • N. gracilis Traquair, 1877

Nematoptychius is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived from the Visean age of the Mississippian epoch (Early Carboniferous) to the Bashkirian age of the Pennsylvanian epoch (Late Carboniferous) in what is now Scotland, Belgium and France.[3]

Its type species, Nematoptychius greenocki, was first described as Pygopterus greenocki by Ramsay Traquair.[1]

See also

  • Prehistoric fish
  • List of prehistoric bony fish

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Schultze, Hans-Peter; Mickle, Kathryn E.; Poplin, Cecile; Hilton, Eric J.; Grande, Lance (2021). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, 8A. Actinopterygii I. Palaeoniscimorpha, Stem Neopterygii, Chondrostei. Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. pp. 299. ISBN 978-3-89937-272-4. 
  2. "Palaeonisciformes". Paleobiology Database. http://paleodb.org/bridge.pl?a=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=35057&is_real_user=1. Retrieved 19 Nov 2012. 
  3. 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 2009-04-24. 

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