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Adriacentrus

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Adriacentrus
Temporal range: Turonian[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Beryciformes
Family: Holocentridae
Genus: Adriacentrus
Radovcic, 1975
Species:
A. crnolataci
Binomial name
Adriacentrus crnolataci
Radovcic, 1975

Adriacentrus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine bony fish that lived in the Turonian in what is now Croatia. It contains a single species, A. crnolataci.[1] Formerly considered a beryciform fish, it is now known to be more closely related to the squirrelfish (Holocentridae).[2][3][4]

References

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  1. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
  3. ^ Murray, Alison M. (2014). "Mid-Cretaceous acanthomorph fishes with the description of a new species from the Turonian of Lac des Bois, Northwest Territories, Canada". Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology. 1: 101–115. doi:10.18435/B5CC78. ISSN 2292-1389.
  4. ^ Gallo-Da-Silva, Valéria; De Figueiredo, Francisco J. (1999-06-14). "Pelotius hesselae , gen. et sp. nov. (Teleostei: Holocentridae) from the Cretaceous (Turonian) of Pelotas Basin, Brazil". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 19 (2): 263–270. doi:10.1080/02724634.1999.10011140. ISSN 0272-4634.