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Styracopterus

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Styracopterus
Temporal range: Tournaisian[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Eurynotiformes
Family: Styracopteridae
Genus: Styracopterus
Traquair, 1890
Species:
S. fulcratus
Binomial name
Styracopterus fulcratus
Traquair, 1890
Synonyms

Styracopterus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Tournaisian stage of the Mississippian epoch of Scotland and Eastern European Platform, Russia.[1][3]

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References

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  1. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
  2. ^ a b Gardiner, Brian G. (1985). "Actinopterygian fish from the Dinantian of Foulden, Berwickshire, Scotland". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences. 76: 61–67. doi:10.1017/S0263593300010312. S2CID 129150300.
  3. ^ Schultze, Hans-Peter; Mickle, Kathryn E.; Poplin, Cecile; Hilton, Eric J.; Grande, Lance (2021). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, 8A. Actinopterygii I. Palaeoniscimorpha, Stem Neopterygii, Chondrostei. Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. p. 299. ISBN 978-3-89937-272-4.