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Cristigerina

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Cristigerina
Temporal range: Early Eocene[1]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Genus: Cristigerina
Leriche, 1905
Species:
C. crassa
Binomial name
Cristigerina crassa
Leriche, 1905

Cristigerina is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine perciform fish that lived during the Eocene.[1][2] It contains a single species, C. crassa from the early Ypresian of Belgium.[3][4]

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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 July 23, 2011. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
  3. ^ "Cristigerina crassa Leriche, 1905 — RBINS Virtual Collections". virtualcollections.naturalsciences.be. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
  4. ^ Leriche, Maurice (1905). Les poissons éocènes de la Belgique (in French). Polleunis & Ceuterick, impr.