Styracopterus
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Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Eurynotiformes |
| Family: | †Styracopteridae |
| Genus: | †Styracopterus Traquair, 1890 |
| Species: | †S. fulcratus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Styracopterus fulcratus Traquair, 1890 | |
| Synonyms | |
Styracopterus is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Tournaisian stage of the Mississippian epoch of Scotland and Eastern European Platform, Russia.[1][3]
- 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
- 1 2 Gardiner, Brian G. (1985). "Actinopterygian fish from the Dinantian of Foulden, Berwickshire, Scotland". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences. 76: 61–67. doi:10.1017/S0263593300010312. S2CID 129150300.
- ↑ Schultze, Hans-Peter; Mickle, Kathryn E.; Poplin, Cecile; Hilton, Eric J.; Grande, Lance (2021). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, 8A. Actinopterygii I. Palaeoniscimorpha, Stem Neopterygii, Chondrostei. Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. p. 299. ISBN 978-3-89937-272-4.
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