Fleurantia

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Fleurantia
Temporal range: Middle Frasnian, 385–374  Ma
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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]

References

  1. "Fossilworks: Fleurantia denticulata". Paleobiology Database . Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  2. Graham-Smith, W.; Westoll, T. S. (1937). "VIII.—On a New Long-headed Dipnoan Fish from the Upper Devonian of Scaumenac Bay, P.Q., Canada" . Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 59 (1): 241–266. doi:10.1017/S0080456800004749. ISSN   2053-5945.
  3. Marshall, Charles R. (1986). "A list of fossil and extant dipnoans" . Journal of Morphology. 190 (S1): 15–23. doi:10.1002/jmor.1051900405. ISSN   1097-4687.
  4. Reed, John Wallace (1985). "Devonian Dipnoans from Red Hill, Nevada". Journal of Paleontology. 59 (5): 1181–1193. ISSN   0022-3360. JSTOR   1305011.