Proscinetes
Extinct genus of fishes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Proscinetes is an extinct genus of prehistoric pycnodontiform ray-finned fish from the Jurassic.[1]
| Proscinetes Temporal range: Tithonian ~ | |
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| Proscinetes cf elegans | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Pycnodontiformes |
| Family: | †Pycnodontidae |
| Subfamily: | †Proscinetinae |
| Genus: | †Proscinetes Gistel, 1848 |
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Proscinetes is the type genus to the subfamily Proscinetinae, whose only other known members are Neoproscinetes, Turbomesodon, Turboscinetes and Thiollierepycnodus.[2][3]
Distribution
Fossils of the P. elegans and P. bernardi are both found in Southern Germany and in Cerin, France. P. itieri is also found in Cerin, and P. radiatus is found in Southern England.[2]
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