Biology:Styracopterus

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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes


Styracopterus
Temporal range: Tournaisian[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Class:
Order:
Family:
Styracopteridae

Moy-Thomas, 1937
Genus:
Styracopterus

Traquair, 1890
Binomial name
Styracopterus fulcratus
Traquair, 1890
Synonyms

?Fouldenia White, 1927[3]
?Holurus Traquair, 1890[3]

Styracopterus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Tournaisian stage of the Mississippian epoch of Scotland and Eastern European Platform, Russia.[1][4]

See also

  • Prehistoric fish
  • List of prehistoric bony fish

References

  1. 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 2009-04-24. 
  2. "Palaeonisciformes". Paleobiology Database. http://paleodb.org/bridge.pl?a=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=35057&is_real_user=1. Retrieved 19 Nov 2012. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Gardiner, Brian G. (1985). "Actinopterygian fish from the Dinantian of Foulden, Berwickshire, Scotland". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 76: 61–67. doi:10.1017/S0263593300010312. 
  4. 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. 

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