Protriacanthus

Protriacanthus
Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: †Protriacanthidae
Tyler & Sorbini, 1996
Genus: †Protriacanthus
d'Erasmo, 1946
Species:
†P. gortanii
Binomial name
†Protriacanthus gortanii
d'Erasmo, 1946

Protriacanthus is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish. It contains a single species, P. gortanii.

Sources

  1. ↑ Tyler, James C.; Sorbini, Lorenzo (1996). "New Superfamily and Three New Families of Tetraodontiform Fishes from the Upper Cretaceous: The Earliest and Most Morphologically Primitive Plectognaths" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 82 (82): 1–59. doi:10.5479/si.00810266.82.1.