Biology:Scleracanthus

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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes


Scleracanthus
Temporal range: early Olenekian
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Scleracanthus

Stensiö, 1921
Binomial name
Scleracanthus asper
Stensiö, 1921

Scleracanthus is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth lobe-finned fish.[1][2][3] It lived during the Early Triassic epoch in what is now Spitsbergen, Svalbard.[4][3]

The type and only species, Scleracanthus asper, was collected from the Lusitaniadalen Member of the Vikinghøgda Formation and is therefore Smithian (early Olenekian) in age.[3][4]

See also

  • Sarcopterygii
  • List of sarcopterygians
  • List of prehistoric bony fish

References

  1. Forey, Peter (1998) (in en). History of the Coelacanth Fishes. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-0-412-78480-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=wHZ6WwqbrmkC&dq=scleracanthus+asper&pg=PA415. 
  2. Jordan, David Starr (1923) (in en). A Classification of Fishes. Stanford University Press. https://books.google.com/books?id=BSWhAAAAIAAJ&dq=scleracanthus+asper&pg=PA109. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Stensiö, Erik (1921). Triassic fishes from Spitzbergen. Vienna: Adolf Holzhausen. pp. xxviii + 307. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.159141. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Romano, Carlo; Koot, Martha B.; Kogan, Ilja; Brayard, Arnaud; Minikh, Alla V.; Brinkmann, Winand; Bucher, Hugo; Kriwet, Jürgen (2016). "Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution". Biological Reviews 91 (1): 106–147. doi:10.1111/brv.12161. PMID 25431138. 

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