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Extinct genus of fishes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trewavasia carinata is an extinct pycnodontid fish in the family Coccodontidae[1] that lived during the lower Cenomanian of what is now Lebanon.[2] It had a large, forward-pointing horn-like spine between its eyes, and a massive stump-like spine emanating from the back of its head. T. carinata is closely related the genera Corusichthys and Hensodon, as well as Coccodus.
| Trewavasia Temporal range: | |
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| fossil of T. carinata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Pycnodontiformes |
| Family: | †Coccodontidae |
| Genus: | †Trewavasia White & Moy-Thomas, 1941 |
| Species: | †T. carinata |
| Binomial name | |
| †Trewavasia carinata (Davis, 1887) | |
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