Willomorichthys

Willomorichthys Temporal range: Visean PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	†Palaeonisciformes
Family:	†Willomorichthyidae
Genus:	†Willomorichthys Gardiner, 1969
Type species
Willomorichthys striatulus Gardiner, 1969

Willomorichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Carboniferous period (Visean age) in what is now South Africa. Fossils were recovered from the Upper Witteberg Series.[1]

See also

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish

References

1. Gardiner, Brian George (1969). "New palaeoniscoid fish from the Witteberg series of South Africa". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 48 (4): 423–452. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1969.tb00722.x.

External links

• Bony fish in the online Sepkoski Database