Pteroniscus
Extinct genus of fishes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the Triassic ray-finned fish, see Pteronisculus.
For the extant plant, see Pterodiscus (plant).
Pteroniscus is an extinct genus of prehistoric "palaeoniscoid" ray-finned fish that lived during the Jurassic period in what is now Kazakhstan, Central Asia.[1] Fossils were recovered from the late Middle Jurassic or early Late Jurassic (Callovian/Oxfordian) Karabastau Formation in the Tian Shan mountains.[1]
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Genus: | †Pteroniscus Berg, 1949 |
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†Oxygnathus turkestanensis Gorizdro-Kulczycka, 1926 | |
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