Protriacanthus

Protriacanthus is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish. It contains a single species, P. gortanii.

Protriacanthus
Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous
Scientific classification
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Protriacanthidae

Tyler & Sorbini, 1996[1]
Genus:
Protriacanthus

d'Erasmo, 1946
Species:
P. gortanii
Binomial name
Protriacanthus gortanii
d'Erasmo, 1946

Sources

  1. Tyler, James C.; Sorbini, Lorenzo (1996). "New Superfamily and Three New Families of Tetraodontiform Fishes from the Upper Cretaceous: The Earliest and Most Morphologically Primitive Plectognaths" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 82: 1โ€“59.
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