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Protriacanthus

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Protriacanthus
Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Protriacanthidae
Tyler & Sorbini, 1996[1]
Genus: Protriacanthus
d'Erasmo, 1946
Species:
P. gortanii
Binomial name
Protriacanthus gortanii
d'Erasmo, 1946

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

Sources

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  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 (82): 1–59. doi:10.5479/si.00810266.82.1.