Scleracanthus

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]

Scleracanthus Temporal range: early Olenekian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Sarcopterygii
Class:	Actinistia
Order:	Coelacanthiformes
Family:	†Coelacanthidae
Genus:	†Scleracanthus Stensiö, 1921
Type species
†Scleracanthus asper Stensiö, 1921

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

• Paleontology portal
• Fish portal

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

References

1. Forey, Peter (1998). History of the Coelacanth Fishes. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-0-412-78480-4.
2. Jordan, David Starr (1923). A Classification of Fishes. Stanford University Press.
3. Stensiö, Erik (1921). Triassic fishes from Spitzbergen. Vienna: Adolf Holzhausen. pp. xxviii + 307. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.159141. S2CID 83338211.
4. 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. S2CID 5332637.