Flugopterus
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| Flugopterus Temporal range: | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Pholidophoriformes |
| Genus: | †Flugopterus Whitley, 1951 |
| Species: | †F. raiblianus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Flugopterus raiblianus (Kner, 1866) | |
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Flugopterus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the early Carnian stage of the Late Triassic epoch.[1] It contains a single species, F. raiblianus (Kner, 1887), previously placed in the genus †Megalopterus Kner, 1866 which was found to be preoccupied. It is known from the Raibl Formation of Austria.[2][3] It likely belongs in the order Pholidophoriformes.[4]
