Watsonichthys
Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes
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Watsonichthys is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Tournaisian age (Mississippian, Carboniferous) to possibly the Asselian age (Cisuralian/lower Permian) in what is now Europe (Scotland, Germany, Czech Republic) and possibly Namibia.[1][2] It is named after David Meredith Seares Watson.
| Watsonichthys Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Palaeonisciformes |
| Genus: | †Watsonichthys Aldinger, 1937 |
| Type species | |
| †Elonichthys pectinatus Traquair, 1877 | |
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