Chrotichthys
Extinct genus of fishes
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Chrotichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater ray-finned fish that lived in the Anisian stage of the Middle Triassic epoch.[2][3] It contains a single species, C. gregarius, known from the Terrigal Formation of New South Wales, Australia.[1]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Perleidiformes |
| Genus: | †Chrotichthys Wade, 1940 |
| Species: | †C. gregarius |
| Binomial name | |
| †Chrotichthys gregarius (Woodward, 1890) | |
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Initially considered the earliest known representative of the "pholidophorid" fishes (as Pholidophorus gregarius), it is now generally considered a perleidiform.[4][5][6]
