Trewavasia Temporal range: | |
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fossil of T. carinata | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | † Pycnodontiformes |
Family: | † Coccodontidae |
Genus: | † Trewavasia White & Moy-Thomas, 1941 |
Species: | †T. carinata |
Binomial name | |
†Trewavasia carinata (Davis, 1887) |
Trewavasia carinata is an extinct pycnodontid fish in the family Coccodontidae [1] that lived during the lower Cenomanian of what is now Lebanon. [2] It had a large, forward-pointing horn-like spine between its eyes, and a massive stump-like spine emanating from the back of its head. T. carinata is closely related the genera Corusichthys and Hensodon , as well as Coccodus . It is named after Ethelwynn Trewavas.