Proscinetes is an extinct genus of prehistoric pycnodontiform ray-finned fish from the Jurassic.[1]
Proscinetes Temporal range: Tithonian
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Microdon Agassiz (1833) |
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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
editFossils 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]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ a b Ebert, Martin (2013). "The Pycnodontidae (Actinopterygii) in the late Jurassic: 1) he genus Proscinetes Gistel, 1848 in the Solnhofen Archipelago (Germany) and Cerin (France)". Archaeopteryx – via Research Gate.
- ^ Ebert, Martin (2019). "A new genus of Pycnodontidae (Actinopterygii) from the Upper Jurassic of France and Germany, included in a phylogeny of Pycnodontiformes". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 188 (2): 434–454.