Nematoptychius
Extinct genus of fishes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Extinct genus of fishes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nematoptychius is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived from the Visean age of the Mississippian epoch (Early Carboniferous) to the Bashkirian age of the Pennsylvanian epoch (Late Carboniferous) in what is now Scotland, Belgium and France.[2]
| Nematoptychius Temporal range: | |
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| fossil of Nematoptychius greenocki | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Palaeonisciformes |
| Genus: | †Nematoptychius Traquair, 1875 |
| Type species | |
| †Pygopterus greenocki Traquair, 1866 | |
| Species | |
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Its type species, Nematoptychius greenocki, was first described as Pygopterus greenocki by Ramsay Traquair.[1]
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