Atopocephala
Extinct genus of fishes
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Atopocephala is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater ray-finned fish that lived during the Middle Triassic epoch. It contains a single species, A. watsoni from the Karoo Supergroup of South Africa. A potential indeterminate species was known from the Timezgadiouine Formation of Morocco, but is now considered an indeterminate actinopterygian.[1][2][3][4]
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| Specimen of A. watsoni | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Redfieldiiformes |
| Family: | †Brookvaliidae |
| Genus: | †Atopocephala Brough, 1934 |
| Species: | †A. watsoni |
| Binomial name | |
| †Atopocephala watsoni Brough, 1934 | |
