Paracentrophorus is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived during the Induan age of the Early Triassic epoch in what is now Madagascar.[1][2] The type species is Paracentrophorus madagascariensis (monotypy).
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| Paracentrophorus madagascariensis fossil (type specimen) | |
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| Genus: | †Paracentrophorus Piveteau, 1940
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Paracentrophorus is classified as a neopterygian. According to Jean Piveteau, it belongs to Semionotidae.[3]
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References
edit- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ Romano, Carlo; Koot, Martha B.; Kogan, Ilja; Brayard, Arnaud; Minikh, Alla V.; Brinkmann, Winand; Bucher, Hugo; Kriwet, Jürgen (February 2016). "Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution". Biological Reviews. 91 (1): 106–147. doi:10.1111/brv.12161. PMID 25431138. S2CID 5332637.
- ^ Piveteau, Jean (1940). "Paléontologie de Madagascar XXIV. — Nouvelles recherches sur les poissons du Trias inférieur". Annales de Paléontologie. 28: 71–88.
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