Potamoceratodus is an extinct genus of lungfish belonging to the family Ceratodontidae known from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of Colorado, USA.[1] It was first named by Jason D. Pardo, Adam K. Huttenlocker, Bryan J. Small and Mark A. Gorman II in 2010 and the type species is Potamoceratodus guentheri.[1]
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| Tooth plate at the Cincinnati Museum Center | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Class: | Dipnoi |
| Order: | Ceratodontiformes |
| Family: | †Ceratodontidae |
| Genus: | †Potamoceratodus Pardo et al., 2010 |
| Type species | |
| †P. guentheri (Marsh, 1878) | |
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References
edit- ^ a b c Jason D. Pardo; Adam K. Huttenlocker; Bryan J. Small; Mark A. Gorman II (2010). "The cranial morphology of a new genus of lungfish (Osteichthyes: Dipnoi) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of North America". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (5): 1352–1359. Bibcode:2010JVPal..30.1352P. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.501430. S2CID 86394597.
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