Dinopteryx Explained

Dinopteryx ("terrible wing") is an extinct genus of prehistoric beardfish from the Late Cretaceous period.[1] It contains a single species, D. spinosus, known from the Santonian of Lebanon (Sahel Alma).[2] It is the only member of the extinct family Dinopterygidae, which is considered a distinct family of the Polymixiiformes.[3] [4] It was previously placed in the genus Hoplopteryx.[5] [6]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: PBDB Taxon . 2024-08-24 . paleobiodb.org.
  2. Sepkoski . Jack . A compendium of fossil marine animal genera . Bulletins of American Paleontology . 364 . 560 . 2002 . 2009-02-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class . 2011-07-23 .
  3. Laan . Richard Van Der . 2018-10-11 . Family-group names of fossil fishes . European Journal of Taxonomy . 466 . 1–167 . 10.5852/ejt.2018.466.
  4. Murray . Alison M. . 2014 . Mid-Cretaceous acanthomorph fishes with the description of a new species from the Turonian of Lac des Bois, Northwest Territories, Canada . Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology . en . 1 . 101–115 . 10.18435/B5CC78 . 2292-1389. free .
  5. Book: Davis, James William . The Fossil Fishes of the Chalk of Mount Lebanon, in Syria . 1887 . Royal Dublin Society . en.
  6. Book: Geology . British Museum (Natural History) Department of . Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History): Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the suborders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini . Woodward . Arthur Smith . 1901 . order of the Trustees . en.

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