Paraceratodus

Paraceratodus is an extinct genus of prehistoric lungfish.[1] Only one species, P. germaini, is known from the latest Permian or earliest Triassic period of Madagascar.[2] Phylogenetic evidence supports it being the most basal member of the suborder Ceratodontoidei, which contains modern lungfish, and as with the rest of the order it likely diverged during the late Carboniferous.[3]

Paraceratodus
Temporal range: Late Permian - Early Triassic (but see text)
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sarcopterygii
Order:
Dipnoi
Suborder:
Ceratodontoidei
Genus:
†Paraceratodus

Lehman et al. 1959
Species:
†P. germaini
Binomial name
†Paraceratodus germaini
Lehman et al. 1959

See also
  • Sarcopterygii
  • List of sarcopterygians
  • List of prehistoric bony fish

References
  1. "Fossilworks: Paraceratodus". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
  2. Kemp, A. (1994). "Australian Triassic Lungfish Skulls". Journal of Paleontology. 68 (3): 647–654. doi:10.1017/S0022336000025968. ISSN 0022-3360. JSTOR 1306207.
  3. Kemp, Anne; Cavin, Lionel; Guinot, Guillaume (2017-04-01). "Evolutionary history of lungfishes with a new phylogeny of post-Devonian genera". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 471: 209–219. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.12.051. ISSN 0031-0182.


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