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Extinct genus of fishes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Potamoceratodus is an extinct genus of lungfish belonging to the family Ceratodontidae known from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of Colorado, USA.[1] It was first named by Jason D. Pardo, Adam K. Huttenlocker, Bryan J. Small and Mark A. Gorman II in 2010 and the type species is Potamoceratodus guentheri.[1]
Potamoceratodus Temporal range: | |
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Tooth plate at the Cincinnati Museum Center | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Class: | Dipnoi |
Order: | Ceratodontiformes |
Family: | †Ceratodontidae |
Genus: | †Potamoceratodus Pardo et al., 2010 |
Type species | |
†P. guentheri (Marsh, 1878) | |
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