Heterostrophus

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Heterostrophus
Temporal range: Callovian- Early Tithonian [1]
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Heterostrophus latus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order:† Dapediiformes
Family:† Dapediidae
Genus:† Heterostrophus
Wagner, 1863
Species [2]
  • †Heterostrophus latus
    Wagner, 1863 (Type)
  • †Heterostrophus phillipsi
    Woodward, 1928

Heterostrophus is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Dapediidae. [3] It lived from the Callovian stage of the Middle Jurassic epoch to the early Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic epoch. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2008-04-30. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. ↑ "Heterostrophus Wagner, 1863". www.gbif.org.
  3. ↑ Maxwell, E. E.; López-Arbarello, A. (2018). "A new species of the deep-bodied actinopterygian Dapedium from the Middle Jurassic (Aalenian) of southwestern Germany". PeerJ. 6 e5033. doi: 10.7717/peerj.5033 . PMC   6026462 . PMID   29967726.


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