Tripelta

Tripelta is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Anisian age (Middle Triassic epoch) in what is now New South Wales, Australia.^[2]

Tripelta Temporal range: Anisian[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Tripelta Dubia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	†Perleidiformes
Genus:	†Tripelta Wade, 1939
Species:	†T. dubia
Binomial name
†Tripelta dubia (Woodward, 1890)

Fossils are derived from the Sydney sandstone. The type and only species, Tripelta dubia, was first described as Peltopleurus dubius by Arthur Smith Woodward, but Robert Thompson Wade later erected the new genus Tripelta for this species.^[3]

See also

• Paleontology portal
• Fish portal

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish