Dinopteryx ("terrible wing") is an extinct genus of prehistoric beardfish from the Late Cretaceous period.[2] It contains a single species, D. spinosus, known from the Santonian of Lebanon (Sahel Alma).[1] It is the only member of the extinct family Dinopterygidae, which is considered a distinct family of the Polymixiiformes.[3][4] It was previously placed in the genus Hoplopteryx.[5][6]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Polymixiiformes |
| Family: | †Dinopterygidae Jordan, 1923 |
| Genus: | †Dinopteryx Woodward, 1901 |
| Species: | †D. spinosus
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| †Dinopteryx spinosus (Davis, 1887)
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See also
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References
edit- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-08-24.
- ^ Laan, Richard Van Der (2018-10-11). "Family-group names of fossil fishes". European Journal of Taxonomy (466): 1–167. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.466.
- ^ Murray, Alison M. (2014). "Mid-Cretaceous acanthomorph fishes with the description of a new species from the Turonian of Lac des Bois, Northwest Territories, Canada". Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology. 1: 101–115. doi:10.18435/B5CC78. ISSN 2292-1389.
- ^ Davis, James William (1887). The Fossil Fishes of the Chalk of Mount Lebanon, in Syria. Royal Dublin Society.
- ^ Geology, British Museum (Natural History) Department of; Woodward, Arthur Smith (1901). Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History): Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the suborders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini. order of the Trustees.
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