Proscinetes
Extinct genus of fishes
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Proscinetes is an extinct genus of prehistoric pycnodontiform ray-finned fish from the Jurassic.[1]
| Proscinetes Temporal range: Tithonian ~ | |
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| Proscinetes cf elegans | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Pycnodontiformes |
| Family: | †Pycnodontidae |
| Subfamily: | †Proscinetinae |
| Genus: | †Proscinetes Gistel, 1848 |
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Proscinetes is the type genus to the subfamily Proscinetinae, whose only other known members are Neoproscinetes, Turbomesodon, Turboscinetes and Thiollierepycnodus.[2][3]
