Styracopterus

Styracopterus
Temporal range: Tournaisian[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: †Eurynotiformes
Family: †Styracopteridae
Genus: †Styracopterus
Traquair, 1890
Species:
†S. fulcratus
Binomial name
†Styracopterus fulcratus
Traquair, 1890
Synonyms

Styracopterus is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Tournaisian stage of the Mississippian epoch of Scotland and Eastern European Platform, Russia.[1][3]

References

  1. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
  2. ^ a b Gardiner, Brian G. (1985). "Actinopterygian fish from the Dinantian of Foulden, Berwickshire, Scotland". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences. 76: 61–67. doi:10.1017/S0263593300010312. S2CID 129150300.
  3. ^ Schultze, Hans-Peter; Mickle, Kathryn E.; Poplin, Cecile; Hilton, Eric J.; Grande, Lance (2021). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, 8A. Actinopterygii I. Palaeoniscimorpha, Stem Neopterygii, Chondrostei. Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. p. 299. ISBN 978-3-89937-272-4.


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