Biology:Ichthyokentema

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Short description: Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes

Ichthyokentema
Temporal range: Tithonian
Pholidophorus NT.jpg
Life restoration of I. purbeckensis
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Ichthyokentemidae
Genus: Ichthyokentema
Woodward, 1941
Species:
I. purbeckensis
Binomial name
Ichthyokentema purbeckensis
(Davies, 1887) [originally Pholidophorus]

Ichthyokentema ("fish-goad") is an extinct genus of stem-teleost fish that lived during the Late Jurassic. It contains one species, I. purbeckensis, which is known from the Purbeck Group of Dorset, England.[1][2] I. purbeckensis was originally described as a species of Pholidophorus by William Davies in 1887,[3] but was moved to its own genus by Arthur Smith Woodward in 1941.[1]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Woodward, A. S. (1941). "VIII.— The Mesozoic Ganoid Fishes of the Genus Pholidophorus Agassiz". Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 (44): 88–91. doi:10.1080/03745481.1941.9727955. 
  2. Sepkoski, J. (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: 560. http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class. Retrieved 2009-02-27. 
  3. Davies, W. (1887). "I.—On New Species of Pholidophorus from the Purbeck Beds of Dorsetshire". Geological Magazine 4 (8): 337–339. doi:10.1017/S0016756800193914. Bibcode1887GeoM....4..337D. 

Wikidata ☰ Q5986413 entry