Fleurantia Temporal range: Middle Frasnian, | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Class: | Dipnoi |
Family: | † Fleurantiidae |
Genus: | † Fleurantia Graham-Smith & Westoll, 1937 |
Species: | †F. denticulata |
Binomial name | |
†Fleurantia denticulata Graham-Smith & Westoll, 1937 | |
Fleurantia is a genus of prehistoric marine lungfish which lived during the Devonian period of North America. [1] It contains a single species, F. denticulata, known from several partially articulated specimens from the Escuminac Formation of Quebec, Canada. [2] [3] Potential remains of Fleurantia have also been recovered from the Devonian-aged Red Hill locality of Nevada, USA. [4]