Scleracanthus is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth lobe-finned fish.[1][2][3] It lived during the Early Triassic epoch in what is now Spitsbergen, Svalbard.[4][3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Class: | Actinistia |
| Order: | Coelacanthiformes |
| Family: | †Coelacanthidae |
| Genus: | †Scleracanthus Stensiö, 1921 |
| Type species | |
| †Scleracanthus asper Stensiö, 1921
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The type and only species, Scleracanthus asper, was collected from the Lusitaniadalen Member of the Vikinghøgda Formation and is therefore Smithian (early Olenekian) in age.[3][4]
See also
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References
edit- ^ Forey, Peter (1998). History of the Coelacanth Fishes. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-0-412-78480-4.
- ^ Jordan, David Starr (1923). A Classification of Fishes. Stanford University Press.
- ^ a b c Stensiö, Erik (1921). Triassic fishes from Spitzbergen. Vienna: Adolf Holzhausen. pp. xxviii + 307. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.159141. S2CID 83338211.
- ^ a b Romano, Carlo; Koot, Martha B.; Kogan, Ilja; Brayard, Arnaud; Minikh, Alla V.; Brinkmann, Winand; Bucher, Hugo; Kriwet, Jürgen (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.
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