Platysiagum

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Platysiagum
Temporal range: Early AnisianEarly Jurassic [1]
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Platysiagum

Egerton, 1872
Binomial name
Platysiagum sclerocephalum
Egerton, 1872
Other species
  • P. minusBrough, 1939
  • P. sinensisWen et al., 2019

Platysiagum is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish belonging to the family Platysiagidae. Fossils are known from the Middle Triassic of China, Italy and Switzerland, and the Early Jurassic of England. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Wen, W.; Hu, S. X.; Zhang, Q. Y.; Benton, M. J.; Kriwet, J.; Chen, Z. Q.; Zhou, C. Y.; Xie, T.; Huang, J. Y. (April 2019). "A new species of Platysiagum from the Luoping Biota (Anisian, Middle Triassic, Yunnan, South China) reveals the relationship between Platysiagidae and Neopterygii". Geological Magazine. 156 (4): 669–682. Bibcode:2019GeoM..156..669W. doi:10.1017/S0016756818000079. hdl: 1983/67be3458-c375-4742-b7b0-22e52c7b5040 . ISSN   0016-7568. S2CID   134097409.