Ganorhynchus
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| Ganorhynchus Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Dipnoi |
| Family: | †Dipnorhynchidae |
| Genus: | †Ganorhynchus Traquair, 1873 |
| Species: | †G. woodwardi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Ganorhynchus woodwardi Traquair, 1873 | |
Ganorhynchus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine lungfish from the Devonian period.[1][2] It is likely paraphyletic.[3]
The type species is †Ganorhynchus woodwardi Traquair, 1873, identified from a partial snout of uncertain age and provenance in the collections of the British Museum, and named after paleoichthyologist Arthur Smith Woodward.[4][5] A second apparent species, G. splendens Gross, 1937 is known from the early Givetian of Germany[6], but is likely not closely related to G. woodwardi, with G. splendens being more basal.[3] Another species from Australia, initially described in this genus, was later moved to its own genus, Dipnorhynchus.[7] Another apparent species, G. beecheri Newberry, 1889 from the Catskill Formation of Pennsylvania, US[5] is known from very fragmentary remains, and may not even be a lungfish.[8]
