Styracopterus

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Styracopterus
Temporal range: Tournaisian [1]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Eurynotiformes
Family: Styracopteridae
Genus: Styracopterus
Traquair, 1890
Species:
S. fulcratus
Binomial name
Styracopterus fulcratus
Traquair, 1890
Synonyms
  •  ?Fouldenia White, 1927 [2]
  •  ?HolurusTraquair, 1890 [2]

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] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
  2. 1 2 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. S2CID   129150300.
  3. 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. p. 299. ISBN   978-3-89937-272-4.